Why is it the Republican Party has so much adverse to say about the new leader of their party?
One issue stands tall against the base that have supported the party for a very long time… It is Immigration.
Quite simply it is about cheap labor and taxes… Let me explain the longer version…
The Republicans have never wanted a change in the immigration policy. They go to some great effort to keep it the way it is.
When it looked like they might have some agreement about the issue from some on the right with the majority of the left, the far right injected a monkey wrench by saying that you can not give legal status to those that are here now.
So when Trump says “Just Deport Them All”, why are the Republicans not for that since that is what they have been promoting without saying that directly.
They don’t want legal status, they don’t want to deport them. What exactly do they want to do with them ?
KEEP THEM WORKING AT SUB-MINIMUM WAGES AND PAYING/COLLECTING NO BENEFIT FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
Do to improper use of tax code, those that hire them set them up as a statutory employee where the employer is not responsible for paying more than 50% of their Social Security or any of the other taxes that a normal U.S. citizen would pay that works in the United States of America.
In effect, it makes it cheaper for them to operate here than anywhere else in the world because the hiring company, receives plenty of subsidy and tax breaks from the government in the field of agriculture.
So if you look back at the last 30 years of policy from the Republicans, it is about maintaining the status quo. Anytime it looks like they could change things, the Republicans will inject something new to bring outrage in the mind of the public.
So, you are either for Citizenship or you are for Deportation,
But you can not create a new 2nd class citizen -OR- we are all doomed to the same when it’s convenient for the money !
So now you can see why Trump is potentially damaging to the party on this issue.
He wants to deport the cheap sub-wage labor that should not be legal in the first place. I don’t think Trump understood what high water he was wading through when he spoke of it only for popular support.
But to the Republican Party, it is a cancer to the fund raising and support that goes straight to the heart of the party. How do the Republican Senators and Representatives counter that ? With What ?
Don’t deport them ? Leave it the way it is again !