[rbessenger]

Is there a "needle in the haystack" argument against this. If we legalize and regulate millions of immigrants that are currently on the outside edge of "legal", won't it make it harder to identify illegals who do not go through any sort of process at all?

[ravingnutter]

If we legalize and regulate millions of immigrants that are currently on the outside edge of "legal", won't it make it harder to identify illegals who do not go through any sort of process at all?

No...it will free up the INS backlogs so they can concentrate on finding those who do not apply for the guest worker program by the deadline. It will create a database of those who apply in case they break the law in the future. Those that apply for this program would not be criminals or welfare recipients as those people would automatically be ineligible based on the requirements.