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You're right, but unfortunately it would probably take a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of the unintended disgrace of anchor babies.

I've read extensively about the immigration issue, and I know that right now we are admitting about one million legal immigrants per year. Yet Bush says that Congress needs to increase the annual alotment of 'Green Cards" from 140,000 to some unspecified higher level.

My question is this: What exactly does a 'Green Card' entail? Is it one specific category of a visa? It can't encompass all immigration because we already admit about 8 times as many people as the limit Bush quoted. So what was he talking about?

Whatever the case, its nice to know that Bush has continued the tradition of thumbing his nose to what most polls show to be the majority position on this issue which is to reduce legal immigration, get serious about stopping illegal immigration, and not reward illegals with such things as amnesty and drivers licenses, and in-state tuition.

And does anyone really doubt that any 'guest' that wants to get permanent residency after the 3 or 6 yrs ends won't get it? Of course they will. Then they can sposor their extended families and already mass levels of legal immigration will skyrocket to even higher levels.

A green card means you can apply for citizenship after a waiting period. The blue card would not. It would only mean you are allowed to stay here for a period of 3 years to work and then must return home.

If a blue card worker wants to become a citizen, he has to apply for a green card and wait his turn in order to come in under the immigration quota for his/her country.

Yes, I do think it would work. A lot of people who come here don't give a fig about becoming a citizen. They come here to work and earn money to send home. If you have a green card, and become unemployed you can stay here, if you have a blue card and become unemployed you must return home.

Whether this is effective or not will depend on how it's set up. That should all be included in the legislation (along with the anchor babies). It may even eliminate the anchor baby problem since one of the requiements is you can only bring your family if you can prove that you make enough to support them. A lot of people wouldn't move their families if they know it'll only be 3 years.