Now I more fully understand why the Bush proposal really fueled the increase in the illegal flow. The reward for having secured an illegal job in the US when "the future" hits, and one can't get a guest worker card anymore, simply by being employed illegally, is simply HUGE.
"If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families."
President George W. Bush, 10/13/2004
That makes the illegals sound more praiseworthy than those who didn't break our laws.
Everyone please remember that many of the so called "illegals" are descendants of the people we ran out of this country at the point of a bayonet.