"we're admitting that our laws don't matter,"
Amnesty and pardons a have a history in our country. Using it does not weaken other laws. Amnesty is the flip side of the justice coin, which is the mercy of the law. Illegals who are contributing to our economy, working menial labor and are law abiding may deserve amnesty. To want to deport all 20 million is unpractical and fanatical.
"fanatical."
That's what King George said 230 years ago.
Amnesty is a pardon for committing a crime. Not a good way for a government to do business or do discourage future crime.
We don't need to deport all 20 million - with jobs and without social services, they would self-deport. They managed to get here, sneaking in through the desert in the dark of night. They can manage to get out.
You obviously drank the Kool-aid that La Raza, Worker's World Party, and the Revolutionary Communist Party (the people actually behind the latest massive pro-ILLEGAL immigration demonstrations) have been handing out. I'm sorry, but illegal immigration is NOT a victimless crime. I live on the border and I've seen my friends and neighbors killed, injured, robbed, and otherwise damaged by the illegals streaming through my county. I have friends who have lost jobs, who have relatives die on a gurney in an emergency room, etc. because of the illegals. I've seen our trauma and maternity wards close because of the illegals. I've seen our schools overcrowded and school costs go up because of the illegals. I've seen our protected areas of the desert absolutely trashed by illegals. I've been chased anad threatened with death by human traffickers waiting to pick up their load of illegals.
Amnesty my ass! Pardons my ass! Hell, Congress and President Bush are trying to ram through something that no only will provide amnesty but will provide rewards. That is absolutely intolerable! So take your "unpractical and fanatical" horse shit and shove it. We're being invaded. Over 20 million are already here. Over the past week and half literally millions have taken to the street, waved flags of the foreign nation to wich they give their allegiance, and you want to tell me to just bend over and take it. Hell no! And then you try to pretend that the criminal invaders are somehow noble, contributing to our economy and are - even most preposterous - "law abiding" and "may deserve amnesty"!!? No freakin' way! I want every last one of them OUT, the border secured, and then and only then will we start to let some of them back in on OUR terms and only when it is proven to benefit US.
So, choose now. Either you're on America's side or your on the side of the ILLEGAL rabble in the streets waving the flags of the foreign nations to which they give their loyalty. Whose side are you on!?