I'm firm in my support for *registering* illegals and their employers with our government. Avoiding that registration is the key to how they have thrived in the U.S. up to today.
I don't give a whit for penalties, incentives, anything...if registration and verification of existing illegals (and employers) aren't included with the plan.
Register them. We've got all sorts of options once 8 million illegals are convinced to register themselves and their employers.
OK, we pass a law requiring everybody to register, and the employers have one year thereafter to cease hiring anybody that is illegal, which illegals are now registered. Are we happy now?
EXISTING......exactly what Fox & friends wants.
What happened to posting these jobs FIRST for citizens & legals that might need them ??? (didn't GWB say that, also ??)
The Bush plan wouldn't register all of the illegal aliens currently here, and there are more than 8 million.
Once you legalize some millions of illegals again, your options will be to give them residence and citizenship, or hope they go home, which would be unlikely since you oppose enforcement and penalties.
The only way your model would get all of the illegals registered would be if after legalizing millions as guest workers, you just legalized the rest, gratis.
Is that the plan?