Here's the loophole for all the recent deportation rhetoric.
The plan seems to be that we build detention facilities so that when we catch illegals at the border, we don't have to ticket them and let them go.
Chertoff never mentioned what to do with illegals that were already living in the US. The guest worker program is aimed at those illegals already here doing tasks which supposedly are otherwise undone, when those illegals seem to be settled in and being productive.
I'm not defending it here, just saying that these are two separate issues. Seal the borders, but provide a way for those already here to get "legal", for a period of time, in order to get a better handle on the problem.