re: Trump Signals that Dreamers can stay, will work something out for some illegals

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In the 2006 congress a bill called Touch Back immigration that almost passed the senate with 56 votes. 56 is not enough to meet the cloture threshold of 60 so the bill died on the senate floor. I think the bill died because the Democrats did not want the Republicans to get the credit in the Latino community for solving this problem.

So what is touchback immigration?

Touchback immigration is a process where illegal immigrants go to their consulates and receive visas and make themselves legal.

Now ask yourself what illegal immigrants would voluntarily do this? The answer is, the good ones. The people we want.

So it's a natural good from bad culling process. As ICE checks stautus they will deport the illegal immigrants that have not voluntarily and overtly acquired legal status and the "good" illegal immigrants that get deported will be able to acquire legal status if they desire. However the "bad" illegal immigrants will be barred from the US.

It is estimated 80-90% of the illegal immigrants will self deport and acquire legal status voluntarily and border control can focus their efforts on the "bad" illegal immigrants.

See how that works?

This is a good and fair plan, IMO.

Now if you listen closely and through innuendo this is Trump's plan (plus the border wall). It's political season and Trump would lose a good number of voters if he explained his plan as I just did. He has to sound tough because he understands that winning the presidency in the TV age is more about optics than anything else.

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