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[Nobody has said that simply granting illegals legal status will fix the problem. We've said that we have a way to fix the problem and we'll allow illegals to participate in it if they cooperate and that's not the centerpiece of this proposal.]

Okay let me get this straight. We have an immigration problem. We are going to pass laws to create a legal rememdy to this problem. A cornerstone of this legal rememdy is to ignore the illegal status of the participants? That is not correcting a problem. That is changing the definition of the problem so that it appears to go away.

We are currently incapable of enforcing our immigration laws, but this new plan guarantees that we will enforce those laws. Color me skeptical. Either we can enforce the laws or we cannot. If we can, enforcing them should be the first step in any new immigration plan.

That is not correcting a problem. That is changing the definition of the problem so that it appears to go away.

No that is looking at the present situation and a possible re-evaluation of how to do things. I don't think this proposal will do anything at all to stop future illegal immigration. I don't think there is any remedy short of an "illegal immigration martial law" for the period of time it would take to actually round them up followed by militarizing the borders. That is not going to happen as bad as some may want it.