What's a FROBL?
Free Republic Open Borders Lobby.
It's something that doesn't really exist. The people being called part of this mythical FROBL don't really support open borders at all. They also don't support solutions to the illegal immigrant problem that won't work.
They recognize that there is a problem, and want a solution, but also understand that it is impossible to shut down the borders of the US.
What's the right solution? Heck, I don't know. Maybe the one coming out of Congress right now will help, but the problem's not new, and there's not going to be a quick solution.
Too much money is tied up in the economics of illegals, unfortunately, and it's going to be really, really difficult to cut off that end.
The agricultural community, for example, is heavily dependent on immigrant workers, and not just the legal kind. It's not just in California, but in every agricultural state.
Get rid of the illegals, and the ag community will scream bloody murder, I guarantee. They don't want to have to pay the going rate for citizen workers, and that's the bottom line.
President Bush is trying to appease everyone, and that's pretty much impossible. He may well end up appeasing nobody, and that's the crux of the problem.
I have no solution to offer...it's a bigger problem than I can comprehend. Is there a solution at all? I don't know. Probably not. The problem is a very long-standing one.
"Free Republic Open Border Lobby". It is a name given to people who don't take the Buchanan/Tancredo/Malkin approach to immigration. None are really for "open borders" but the members who are obsessed with the issue think that if they don't agree with their position 100% then you're for total "open borders".