Self-deportation was the mantra of the Mitt Romney campaign.  At the time, it was seen as a kinder and gentler alternative to forcibly deporting illegal aliens, because even Republicans became afraid of being supportive of enforcing our immigration laws, for fear of being viewed as cruel or heartless by the liberal media. The politics has moved in four years on the Republican side to the point where we have three kinds of candidates: Trump, who calls for mass deportations, à la Operation Wetback; nearly everyone else, who calls for no deportations and varying states of legalization; and Ted Cruz, who calls for tightening E-Verify and cutting welfare to persuade illegals to deport themselves (with the exception of "criminal" illegals who will be deported, which confuses me, because all illegals, by definition, have committed a criminal act). We are already quite familiar with Trump's position, and the position of the other candidates doesn't really...(Read Full Post)