[Porterville]

Never mind, you're getting hit by to many angles to be rational.

[Beck_isright]

You mean like your inability to logically answer one question:

What is the biggest detriment to the US economy due to the current policy and the proposed one?

[motzman]

When Bush first came out with his proposal, I was quite upset with it...mainly because of what "conservatives" THINK its' all about.

Then, since I'd quickly dismissed other Bush proposals without fully understanding them (i.e. the medical savings accts in the prescrip. bill are worth the cost of the bill alone), I did a little reading of Bush's "proposal", and I'm with you--if this is done right, it's genius.

People are forgetting a few things...

1) There's a lot of details that have yet to be fleshed out that will be good (i.e. workers having children here will not get auto US citizenship, etc.)

2) Enforcement will be much more integral to the "proposal" than most realize (there's no reason to bring it up now)

3) Strategery--Bush is so good at this stuff that he's fooling our own people. Wild overreactions to trial balloon proposals. The only people who should be nervous about this are illegals who are unwilling to register, and unethical employers who hire illegals to begin with. And that's a good thing.

When the details are hashed out on this, it will be very good, and take away the incentive for employers to hire illegals. Which is the reason why we have this "problem" in the first place.

The lack of trust for Bush here is disturbing.