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Out of the six million who were eligible for Reagan's amnesty, less than half took advantage of it.

I suspect the factor there is simple fear on their part that the program is a trick to get them deported.

And are you kidding me here? Your objection is that they don't want to be citizens? If you're right then a simple solution is a guest worker as a form of earned citizenship. That is, only those planning to become citizens need to apply. Although you couldn't be more wrong on this one.

Fine, excuse 140 billion of the federal budget for each of the last five years.

You're ignoring the exploding entitlements.

Educating the children of illegals...

Wait, so according to you we don't need to provide opportunities for next generation of workers. Just keep em poor or deport? Who's going to pay the Medicare bills and Social Security checks 20 years down the road then?

I suspect the factor there is simple fear on their part that the program is a trick to get them deported.

So let me see if I get this straight. We try the same thing all over again and expect there to be a different result? Isn't that the definition of stupidity? Expecting a new result when all the parameters are the same? We offer amnesty this go around and guest worker cards and this will reduce illegal immigration?

Oooh, look, we can again excuse the majority who don't participate because they're afraid this is a trick to deport them. Whee. Nothing has changed, yet again, aside from yet another wave of illegals followed by another wave followed by another wave, plus a resident alien population who thinks that it's about time we recognize that this should be Mexico...

So rather than play this game all over again, put in and enforce laws that punish employers who hire illegals. Seize companies and businesses run and operated by illegals. Put in targeted enforcement of sales tax laws especially where they have traditionally been ignored. End all state support of illegals. And then deport those too stubborn to do it themselves.