[TomGuy]

We were promised that problem was supposed to be fixed then, remember?

From White House proposes illegals plan:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat and a key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will consider the proposal, [yesterday] called it "woefully inadequate" and said it "falls far short of being the serious reform our country needs to fix our broken immigration system."

I has been broken for decades. It is still broken. Congress and the Presidential Administrations since Regan won't fix it. It will continue to be broken because elected representatives are inept at trying to fix it. Regrettably, it will take one or more 9-11 atrocities for that to happen. GWB's proposal only adds to the problem and encourages more illegals to bust ass to get here for this or the next amnesty (yes, there will be other amnesties, bet on it).

[Alberta's Child]

That's an excellent point. If the immigration system has been broken for decades, then we probably never really had much of an "immigration system." Most of the people who arrived in this country before the 1920s would be considered "illegal immigrants" by today's standards because there were few (if any) immigration laws in force at the time. Most people just hopped on a boat in Ireland or Italy, sailed to the United States, and settled in whatever happened to be the first city they reached in the U.S.

[rintense]

Kennedy is full of it. Immigration isn't the problem. ILLEGAL immigration is the problem- one the government doesn't even want to address with any common sense whatsoever.

[WOSG]

Immigration has been broken since Ted Kennedy "fixed" it in 1965.

That he doesnt like Bush's plan is only a sign that the Democrats are demanding something worse.