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Shots Fired: Ben Carson Just Took A Swing At Trump’s Big Plan. Donald Won’t Be Pleased…
Mass deportation of illegal immigrants sounds good but is not a workable federal policy, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Tuesday, taking head-on a centerpiece proposal of GOP rival Donald Trump.
“It sounds really cool, you know, ‘Let’s just round them all up and send them back,’” Carson said at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. “People who say that have no idea what that would entail in terms of our legal system, the costs – forget about it. Plus, where you gonna send them? It’s just a double whammy.”
Trump wants to deport the estimated 11 million undocumented workers currently in the U.S. Carson offered a different proposal. Mass deportation, he said, would be expensive and impractical. It would also cripple the hotel and agriculture industries, he said.
“What I have suggested is that we allow people to become guest workers, assuming that they don’t have any criminal record, or if they have anything askew—they go,” Carson said. “They have a six-month window and they can get registered. They can pay a back taxes penalty. They can pay their taxes going forward, and they now exist above ground.”
Carson said his proposal acknowledges the reality of the vast numbers of illegal immigrants who have been integrated into the economy.
“If there are hard working people who have been here working hard and they want to continue working hard and they have a clean record and they are contributing, I don’t feel that it’s practical to round them all up and throw them out,” he said.
First, Carson said, comes protecting the country from the waves of illegal immigrants that flow across the borders.
“You can’t even begin this debate without securing the borders and we have the ability to do that,” he said.
“Then you have to turn off the spigot that dispenses the goodies, including employment,” he said. “If there’s nothing to come for, then people won’t come.”
San Francisco venture capitalist Scott Russell, who said he was an unaffiliated voter, called Carson charismatic, yet positive.
“He wasn’t trying to attack other candidates or trying to say negative things,” Russell said. “I like people who describe their policies, but don’t spend their minutes trying to attack others.”
h/t: Yahoo News
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/shots-fired-ben-carson-just-took-a-swing-at-trumps-big-plan-donald-wont-be-pleased/
