Amnesty will guarantee conservatives wander in the wilderness for another forty years. Twenty-five million new Democrat voters is not what this country needs. And we don’t need to recruit foreign workers. Anyone seen the unemployment numbers recently? Or the huge deficits run up by socialist democrats and “compassionate” conservatives?
They don’t want amnesty, they want free stuff.
They’ll take amnesty, but they’ll still demand the free stuff.
LLS
The unemployment numbers don’t really tell the story.
Look at the labor participation rates under BHO:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Or the employment-population ratio:
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
Not necessarily. There is a legitimate compromise condition....it is called "permanent residency". Currently "permanent residency" includes an almost automatic path the citizenship. Change that so that for ILLEGAL immigrants, the citizenship option is eliminated......they will be allowed to stay in the US and work, but NEVER, EVER be allowed to vote.
For minor children brought here illegally by their parents, a similar condition of permanent residency, but with the option to apply for citizenship upon reaching age 21, with the conditions of successfully getting an education (high school diploma minimum) OR serving a term in a branch of the US military and being honorably discharged.
Finally, such legislation MUST close the Mexican/US border, by whatever means necessary.
The above meets any sane notion of "compassion" and fairness.