The part that galls me in our post-9-11 world are those who whine that the President's plan for separating out the lawful and productive guest workers from the nefarious and those who are up-to-no-good will result in something really, really terrible: People will be (gasp!) jumping in line ahead of visa applicants, and gosh darn it all, that is naughty and not nice to do! They think it better to prevent line-jumping than to stop al-Qa'eda terrorists and other violent criminals, but then their skewed values are one reason no one ever plays 'Hail to the Chief' when they enter a room.
LOL!!!
That is an excellent point and on an even more basic level...
we have a broken system
Dubya is offering a workable solution to find and register illegals who are currently working and we don't know who they are.
If Dubya did nothing like previous Presidents...hey the illegals are still working.
Why not promise them 3 years and find out who the illegals are now. We can figure out if they can stay later.