They wont ask anybody to go home. They wont ask them to comply with the law and selfdeport. And if youre not willing to send people home. you cant have an immigration policy. So I ask the question. when would you. under the Senate proposal of the bill. deport the first person that was just unlawfully present in the United States and hadnt broken any laws? And the answer to that is. they dont know the answer. And the answer you get from the other side over here. Mr. Speaker. is they dont know the answer either. at least they cant confess to the answer. which is. not today. not next month. not next year. not in the 18 months of voluntary sign up for provisional legal status. not in the 4 years subsequent to that. which you could sign up with for a Z Visa. not in the next 4 years which you could extend it for. and not in the next 8 to 9 / years at least. and in fact. we know that not now. that not ever would they be willing to deport someone who was just illegally in the United States. And if the proponents of this plan arent willing to dleport people. then they cant have an enforcement law at all. All they can have is. were going to sign everybody up. and were going to hope that the felons and the criminals will sign up. too. And if they do. we will hope they dont walk back out the door. and we can maybe identify them and send them home someday. I dont know if theyve examined the idea that they arent going to show up to sign up if they think they might be deported. And if you ask them to go back to their own country and do a touchback. they arent going to go back unless you guarantee they can come back into this country. And in fact. thats one of the other promises that they made in the Senate: well. you can go back to your home country.
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Felons and criminals will not sign up for legal status.