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Well, I'm not persuaded by Rush's argument. In the first place, the last amnesty--under Ronald Reagan--did not solve the illegal immigrant problem. It just encouraged MORE illegal immigrants to come in, in the hope that they too would be legalized by the stroke of a pen. So, I agree that it's hard to deal with 6 million illegals, but you won't solve the problem by legalizing them. You'll just end up with 6 million legalized and maybe 12 million more illegals.

In the second place, sure, La Raza is screaming that this is a bad idea. It doesn't go far enough and it's being proposed by Bush, which automatically makes it bad. But why is that an argument for doing it? The Republicans are constantly passing half-way measures for blacks, workers, women, hispanics. By doing so, they simply make the extremists more angry than ever, and get very little credit. To simplify, the Democrats offer everyone in the country a hundred dollars. Then the Republicans say, "Oh, no, that's irresponsible. We'll give everyone in the country $50." NOT A WINNING STRATEGY.

[Indie]

HERE is the only thing Rush said I agree with:

The Mexican leader has been whining for years the U.S. hasn't done enough to provide employment opportunities for Mexican citizens. Well, screw him. What about his own country providing jobs for his own citizens? What is the responsibility that we have for this? I mean, for crying out loud, we got enough people in this country who think the government's job is to provide work for them. What is this business that the Mexican president thinks that it's our job to do that for his own citizens, too?