I never said they were getting a free pass. I understand perfectly well that these people have been fingerprinted, photographed, and have gone through a background check. I also know that the means by which these cards are issued are severely flawed:
The State Dept. presumes that the people who apply for these cards will not use them to immigrate to the United States. It is up to the applicant to defeat that presumption. 10 million Mexicans have been able to defeat that presumption and have been given the cards. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them have used the card to enter the United States legally and have violated the terms of the visa by overstaying and working illegally in the US. The US Visit program would have been a check on all this misuse, and Bush's backtracking on this shows that he simply intends to make it easier for illegal immigrants to come into, and stay in, the country.
I will, as long as Bush follows his let-'em-all-in-if-they're-not-terrorists strategy