My position is not absolutely backwards. This country will never take the position of rounding up millions of illegals and deporting them. It will not happen.
Hence, why not make them illegal and begin collecting taxes on their labor. That is the better political and economic position.
Si sólo piensa más acerca de la situación, usted tambien empieza comprender que tengo razón.
"If only you think more closely about the situation, you too will begin to comprehend that I'm right."
Do you think whipping out your high school Espanol 101 will win us over, cabron? Vaya al carrajo, cono.
Sorry, I don't hable espanol.
Babelfish says if I think more about the situation, I'll come to see that you are right.
I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with you. In my opinion and experience, you are putting the cart before the horse. You cannot offer the carrot of legalization and expect the flood of illegals to ebb. It just isn't going to happen now matter how long you sit and wish it to be so.
I don't necessarily disagree with your idea of putting illegal immigrants on the tax rolls as long as we weed out the criminal element among them. But as long as the borders remain porous and the potential for truly evil people to cross unnoticed exists, no amount of legalization will help us. In fact, it hurts us.
Control of the border must absolutely come first. I will not budge from that position, and neither should the US as a matter of policy. After that, we can consider implementing your ideas.
Hence, why not make them illegal and begin collecting taxes on their labor. That is the better political and economic position.
More bad analysis. Those aren't the only two options.
The reason we can't legalize illegal aliens is because it rewards lawbreakers while penalizing the law-abiding. Not surprisingly, every time we've legalized illegals, we've ended up with more illegal aliens.
Your solution is no solution at all, it would be an escalation of the problem.
A better solution is to remove the rewards for illegal aliens and encourage them to leave on their own, while also creating a guest worker program that only admits applicants from their home countries.