[FITZ]

At best this article is extremely naive. If organized crime is behind this ---- how does issuing blue cards which can be forged and sold and stolen address that problem? If they can't stop the organized criminals now --- nothing changes --- they're still out there.

Also there just won't be enough legal jobs for all those in Mexico who would want them. Our economy isn't adding 3 million jobs a year.

[Beck_isright]

"Our economy isn't adding 3 million jobs a year."

No, but the Indian and Chinese economies are.

[spunkets]

"If they can't stop the organized criminals now --- nothing changes --- they're still out there. "

The INS IDs could be a modern type and run in a database that works. If the ID's bogus, then an arrest is made.

"Also there just won't be enough legal jobs for all those in Mexico who would want them. Our economy isn't adding 3 million jobs a year."

The key to this program is that the job must exist for the card to be good. The problem now is that many folks are unwilling to get tough on folks just earning a living. As it is now it's not easy to sort out the decent from the criminals. Bush's proposals are geared to change that situation to where it is clear who deserves to be deported.