[Cold Heat]

It also allows illegals to apply for citizenship.

The code determines when they file for a card. The Bush plan has not said anything that is not in the code.

Code says that those who cross illegally are prohibited from green card application for a period of years, depending on the degree of the violation.

It is complicated in how the determine degree and pages in length. That will not be changed.

Most of these guys can be enticed back home to apply from Mexico if you stomp them with a fine. Those that don't pay the fine. Plead guilty to a crime. Where is the amnesty. Where is the green card.

Your semantics will not change the definition, which is the 86 which pardoned them and gave then automatic access to a green card. That is amnesty.

[k2blader]

Your semantics will not change the definition

You seem confused. All I posted was the definition.

Let me try to make it simpler:

I think criminals who illegally cross our border should be punished, not rewarded with jobs and allowed to apply for citizenship.

[k2blader]

Part of your post intrigued me so I did a quick Google.

Here's what I found:

Long term illegal residents
Some individuals who have resided illegally in the United States for a long period of time may be eligible for a green card if:

• The illegal resident's immediate family members are U.S. citizens and
• The immediate family members would suffer undue hardship were the illegal resident forced to leave.

Beware - See your immigration attorney before attempting to get a green card through these methods. You may bring your illegal residence in the United States to the attention of the BCIS and be forced into deportation proceedings instead of getting a green card.

Source

Isn't it nice how they advise the illegals to see their pettifoggers before attempting this method.

Surely you don't support this?