[Cincinatus' Wife]

10 million people are not going to be returned to their home of origin.

Get real!

If people can't grasp that and work with what we have, they're not interested in fixing this awful mess.

[billbears]

Oh good. We'll just have another amnesty like we did in the 1980s. With the understanding that from this point we'll really start to enforce immigration laws. I mean, it worked so well the last time....

You know why have laws at all? Let's just all send in a list of laws we don't like to the national government and we'll just keep the ones everyone likes. How's that? The moral relativism that you Republicans apparently have to jump through to support their party is fascinating. Break the laws that are necessary when the right party is in office, hold fast to them when the other one is in power.

[SunnySide]

"10 million people are not going to be returned to their home of origin. "

That's why the INS goes after the fish in the barrels with drug and criminal activities in their recent records and look the other way regarding the other 9.9 million illegals who flow into America in earnest working honest jobs.

[Wonder Warthog]

"10 million people are not going to be returned to their home of origin. Get real! If people can't grasp that and work with what we have, they're not interested in fixing this awful mess."

I usually agree with you, but not on this one. Start deporting'em as fast as possible. Maybe we WON'T be able to actually deport them all, but actively working the deportation process will send a signal to those comtemplating illegal entry that the barriers are now up, and it's no longer "business as usual" on the illegal entry front.

ANY other solution involving "amnesty" of any sort simply tells those contemplating entry to "come on down" and if you succeed in entering illegally, then there won't be any real consequences for your action.