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Just put yourself into the shoes of an illegal who registers for Bush's new plea bargain program.

First he Registers with our government, naming his employer, address, and family. Then he has to pay a fine for being here illegally (or he can return to his home country and apply from there to bypass the fine). Then he has to work for 3 straight years, while paying taxes (some of which will be refundable to him), and he has to avoid felonious criminal activity.

Now, at the end of 3 years, he has alot of his life and potential wealth invested in this legal program. To remain legal, he has to deport himself back to his home country. Once there, he can apply for a blue card renewal (and some will get them).

If he *doesn't* go home, then he loses his tax refund. He loses the right to be here legally ever again (per this plan), and we know where he lives and who he works for because he has Registered with the government and has been paying taxes...so suddenly hiding from the government is a big problem.

He's gone from being off of the grid (i.e. pre-2004) to being on our government's radar. We know who he is, where he lives, and who he works for...should he choose to participate in Bush's new plea bargain.

So after 3 years of participating, is he going to then give it all up to try to go underground again, or is he going to travel back to his home country and apply for a blue card renewal from there per our rules?

Ah, but you forget that in the San Antonio phone book (and I suspect L.A. and Phoenix as well), you have 10 pages of people named Juan Garcia, another 10 for Jose Sanchez etc,etc. It's the same nightmare we have in trying to track the millions of Mohammeds in the world. It will be impossible to enforce this 3-year rule and any thinking person knows it. These people DO NOT PLAY BY OUR RULES, get it? They come from a law-breaking culture and know that we do not have the will to enforce immigration laws.
And as for you who think they will pay taxes on their minimum wage jobs, you are dead wrong. They will be joining the millions who get the Earned Income Tax Credit from YOUR paychecks. Wake up and smell the coffee, people. Jorge Boosh has just sold out the middle-class and lower middle-class with this pathetic proposal. Turn up the heat on your Republican Congressmen and let them know you will not be voting for them if they let this go through.

My Lord, then he will be just as screwed as the average American tax serf !!

This is Brilliant!