"We'll just have to deal with the damage he did today, in the form of the hundreds of thousands of future Illegals who he encouraged to break our laws."
I disagree. What Bush proposed today does not provide a new incentive for illegals to come here *outside* of Bush's plan. They can apply for legal admission here from their home country, or if they are already here they can pay a fine, Register, and apply for their 3 year blue card.
But if they come over without applying legally (and getting approved) after Bush's plan is approved, then they are EXEMPT from the plea bargain and can't obtain legal status at any point in the future (per the proposal). That's hardly a new incentive to break our laws by trespassing over to here outside of this new program.
How about for those that want to turn the blue card into green, that they get bonus points if they can pass a written proficiency test in English? That might create an incentive for blue card holders to make their major hobby learning English. Just a thought.
Your posts are excellent Southack, but having Freeped for about 3 hours now, I know this plan is DOA (not because of Freeper posts and their opinions, but because of the thread articles). The status quo will rule. The essential lynchpin of the Bush plan is simply too controversial (temporary workers working at bad wages, and keeping those kinds of jobs at bad wages). Ya, I know, that is what the status quo does, but sometimes, rather than a society facing itself in the mirror, better to keep it all under the mattress.
