We'll see. I know that many people outside of the border states and heavily agricultural states are not fully aware of the extent of the illegal alien situation, nor the multi-billion dollar illegal industries of people smuggling, document forgery and identity theft that are built on top of the illegal alien industry, nor how those industries are tailor made for terrorists wishing to get into the country.
But that is changing, thanks to the attention the MMP, Lou Dobbs, Bill O' Reilly, FAIR, AILPAC, Michelle Malkin, and many many others are bringing to the issue.
I suspect that many people will support a guest worker program, as I do, that does not in any way reward illegals for their sneaking into this country illegally and enabling the other illegal industries (people smuggling, document forgery, etc.). Another Bracero type program may be just what the doctor ordered, but it cannot be given to people in this country illegally. That is an amnesty, and amnesty for illegals is a guaranteed failure. You want to be a guest worker here? Apply for it from your home country. Period. Anything else, any amnesty at all, is a magnet for more illegality, as the amnesty of 1986 showed us.
It costs a lot of money. In the time required to do it, the economy will crash. You have to create a huge bureaucracy.