His self-deportation idea is both deadly serious and an old joke.
What he fails to understand is that his policies, especially on immigration and his risible "self-deportation" idea, are what is holding him back with Latinos, rather than his ethnic identity.
Romney first unveiled the "self-deportation" idea in a debate in January, explaining that he supported strict standards on employment that he claimed would force undocumented immigrants to return to their home countries.
He advocated for "self-deportation," the idea that eliminating economic opportunities for immigrants would force them to leave the country on their own, and he named anti-immigrant restrictionist Kris Kobach as a campaign advisor (which he later hedged on and tried to deny).
At one point in time Rubio, who's own family's story begins with illegal immigration and avoided deportation, championed the idea of a "pathway to citizenship".
Establishing a clear path to citizenship for undocumented adults, creating a more permissive guest-worker program, reducing unwarranted police stops of immigrants and preserving families rather than separating them through deportation are controversial ideas, but they deserve a hearing.
The idea of deportation, temporary or permanent, touches a nerve with the Palestinians.
"This is one of the things you see in the flyer ― the idea of deportation and foreigners coming in to take over".
The repatriation bill was quashed, the idea of deportation was gone and the movement just dissolved – not in an organised way, but people just stopped coming around and stopped doing things.
His endorsement of Perry comes after the candidate was criticized for his immigration platform, which rests on the idea that deportation of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country is impractical and unlikely.
The repatriation bill was quashed, the idea of deportation was gone and the movement just dissolved not in an organized way, but people just stopped coming around and stopped doing things.
