"We want a bill that doesn't even mention guest workers."
A guest worker program is even part of Tancredo's bill!
You will need it or you will get such vehement opposition from the cheap-labor lobby and the immigration lawyers, it will fail. Furthermore, you can't stop illegal immigration without allowing reasonable forms of legal immigration.
The best you can hope for is to get the Republicans to have a *limited* guest worker program, such as Tancredo.
Limiting families etc. sounds great in principle, but when you have a supreme court in effect saying that kids have legal rights to school even if they are here in USA illegally, it is hard to have legal recourse for appropriate Government behavior.
"We want the current laws enforced strictly."
You'd think that would be a no brainer! :-)
Kyl-Cornyn bill has put in provisions for employer sanctions that would finally get us back to enforcing the laws.
Now add the anti-sanctuary language *and* ideas like Lamar Smith's (R-TX) to help local law enforcement enforce the laws, *and* the ideas for funding more beds for illegal aliens, *and* some way to end catch-n-release by INS, ie, edn the amnesty loopholes, and you have many of the holes in the system plugged.
But it won't be easy.
"Pubs are going to loose the next election on immigration"
Why? The public embraces the Democrats' "pro-amnesty" position?!?!
I find it funny that cynics, on a thread where the House majority leader basically has taken the stance we would WANT him to take, still have to be in rant-mode.
Take this for what it is: A very positive sign that we will NOT see the Republican party throw in the towel on this issue. The core of the Republican party (folks like McCain excepted) do not want illegal immigration to continue unabated and do not want open borders.
Employer sanctions and internal enforcement will fall off very quickly after the program begins. Republicans only care about an expansive guest worker program and keeping terrorists from crossing the border. Enforcement against employers and "new" illegals (guest workers that stay after their alloted time) would hurt buisness and we cant have that. Learn Spanish.