NBC News
By Suzanne Gamboa
July 30, 2015
Donald
Trump, who leads all GOP rivals in the presidential primary polling,
drew on an immigration proposal from about a decade ago for his latest
proposal on dealing
with immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
Trump told CNN he would remove all people here illegally and have them return "in an expedited way" return to the U.S.
"I
would get people out and I would have an expedited way of getting them
back into the country so they can be legal," Trump said. "We have to
bring great people into
this country ... I love the idea of immigration, but it's got to be
legal immigration."
For
some who've been watching the immigration debate in Congress for a
while, the proposal may sound familiar. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., made a
similar proposal in 2005 under
which people here illegally would return to their countries, apply for a
work visa at U.S. embassies and re-enter the U.S. legally as temporary
workers.
What
tripped up that proposal remains an open question with Trump, something
he could not yet explain in detail in his interview with CNN: How do
you identify the millions
you want to leave and get them to do so?
Trump,
who made billions in real estate and other business ventures, said
doing so is easy and politicians aren't able to because they don't know
how to manage.
But there are naysayers to the feasibility of Trump's plan, having seen something similar before.
The
Kyl proposal eventually became known as "report to deport." Many
questioned whether people would voluntarily report to the government to
be deported. Even Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., said in a 2005 Judiciary Committee hearing, that "11
million people are not going to voluntarily come out of the shadows just
to be shipped home. 'Report to Deport' is not reality and it isn't
workable. Systematically rounding up every person
living here illegally and sending them home isn't a viable solution
either."
The
2005 leave and return idea was proposed as an alternative to
McCain-Kennedy (immigration bill of 2005), said rank Sharry, executive
director and founder of America's
Voice, who had worked for passage of the McCain-Kennedy bill at the
time.
"It
was really designed to slow down and undermine comprehensive
immigration reform," Sharry said. "McCain-Kennedy passed the Senate
anyway but was blocked in the House."
He added that even Kyl and cosponsor John Cornyn, R-Texas, didn't say they would "round 'em up and deport them first."
Sharry pegged Trump's idea as mass deportation.
"The
notion of forcing 11 million hardworking immigrant families to leave
the country is so ugly and unworkable even the anti-immigrant movement
has disavowed this radical
notion," Sharry said.
"Now
Trump is going there, putting him to the right of Romney's radical
'self-deportation' stance and showing the country generally, and Latino,
Asian-American and immigrant
voters in particular what the GOP's frontrunner has in mind for
immigration policy in America."
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