[inquest]

I doubt that, but if that's the case, then Congress can always loosen immigration requirements afterwards. There's no need to make border security contingent on a guest-worker program or on any other immigration "reform". Since we've never made more than a token effort at securing the borders, it's time to give that a chance first. It worked pretty well for the Israelis.

[Ben Ficklin]

The problem with your logic is that it will take 4-5-6 years to gradually implement the enforcement.

If this were the policy that was chosen, it would be very interesting to contemplate the dis-satisfaction amongst the hardliners, such as yourself, with the pace of implementation of enforcement or the effectiveness/ineffectiveness, in preventing illegal entry, the added enforcement might have at any particular time during the gradual implementation. In other words, an enforcement only solution will not satisfy you.