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Time will prove the wisdom of the Bush policy.

The reality is the illegals are here, and have been for years. Many are the guests of Americans like you.

What Bush needs is political cover to nail those illegals to the wall who will not officially reveal their existence and play by the rules.

By giving them a fair chance to provide the best of their presence, the willingness to work at entry-level jobs that Americans shun, and removing the worst, which is their unregistered and illegal status, Bush is once again achieving the heroic and legendary.

Freepers will embrace this policy with time.

I'll be patient in my counter-criticism because I believe emotions and not common sense are guiding the initial reaction.

What Bush needs is political cover to nail those illegals to the wall who will not officially reveal their existence and play by the rules.

If they didn't reveal their existence? That makes no sense --- and why would they play by the rules when our leaders periodically come up with amnesites/legalizations that make it smarter not to play by the rules?

And just how is Bush going to nail them against the wall if they won't officially reveal their existence? What can he do ---- send out agents to do door to door searches looking for the illegals who didn't sign up with his guest worker program?

We don't need time to prove this policy will fail ... just look at what happened after the last amnesty back in '87.

Bush just lost my vote. I will vote libertarian. Will be writing letters to all my congress folks pleading them to stop this insanity.

This is going to be one hot political potato.

What cannot get lost in the picture is that President Bush has already been given the "Hitler" label. The lying liberals don't give a rats behind about what happens to "humanity".

The lying liberals will react in whatever manner they see that will help themselves regain their power and seems to me that we conservatives should not play into their hand.

If he were willing to put only a fraction of the resources that it will take to give millions of ILLEGALS legitimacy into immigration enforcement NOW there would be no need to play this smoke and mirrors game in pandering to the hispanic vote.

Boy are you blind. Germany has had a guestworker program for years and it is a nightmare. When Germany's economy was good (pre-reunification) they began their guestworker program which was utilized mainly by Turks who took jobs Germans did not want. Post-reunification, when their economy was in trouble, many guestworkers were told to go home because they now had millions of East Germans willing to take low-paying jobs. Guess what? The "guestworkers" would not leave! Then the German government began PAYING THEM TO LEAVE, and guess what? They took the money, left the country, then came back in illegally. Germany is a small country, roughly the size of Montana. They have strict border patrol and they can't even keep their "guestworkers" from returning illegally so how do you think we will be able to keep track of them?

My point is, the "guestworker" program is just another amnesty program which will be pushed through in an election year to buy votes for our corrupt politicians. It is a useless program and will only encourage more people to take advantage of us. Bush just lost my vote. Legend my A$$!

Common sense says if you do not hold your elected politicians to their Constitutional duties, then you will get tyranny by and by.

This proposal is a tyranny of the executive office. It completely ignores the will of the people and the Constitutional duty of the president to maintain the borders and follow the rule of law.

No emotions in this post, just plain common sense.

I hope you see the foolishness in policy this policy in time.