[FerdieMurphy]

Do you need three guesses?

No. We know our congress. Whatever the majority wants they never get.

[VU4G10]

If these were the finalists for the Republican nominee in '08, which one would you choose?

Tom Tancredo
47.6%
George Allen
39.8%
Mike Pence
12.6%

[rightinthemiddle]

From another FR Thread:

Americans support building a security fence along the entire 2,000 mile U.S.- Mexican border by a landslide, a new Time magazine poll has found.

By a margin of 56 to 40 percent, respondents said they want the wall built from sea to shining sea - not just the 700 miles stipulated in the House plan, a proposal the press calls "draconian."

In more evidence that the American people want a tougher crackdown on illegal immigration than anything favored by Congress or the media, 62 percent told Time that they favored using the military to guard the border. Just 35 percent opposed.

But the poll's biggest shocker may be on the question of deporting illegals back to their native country, an option that politicians and the press say is out of the question.

Time found, however, that 47 percent of those surveyed actually favor deporting "all illegal immigrants." 49 percent were opposed.

And 51 percent said the U.S. would be "better of" if all illegals were deported and the border sealed to prevent any more from coming in. Just 38 percent disagreed.



A full 75 percent say illegals should be denied government supplied healthcare and food stamps, with 21 percent saying they should get those benefits. 69 percent say illegals shouldn't be allowed to get U.S. drivers licenses.

Time surveyed 1004 adult Americans on March 29 and 30. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3 percent

[rightinthemiddle]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1612341/posts

[justshutupandtakeit]

So this guy believes one has no rights unless they are Government Approved? Hmmmm

[angkor]

If you go back to GWB's formal request for a solution back in early 2004, he repeatedly asserts "no amnesty" and that the guest worker program should not serve as a path to citizenship or permanent residency. He also asked for three-year visas renewable for two cycles, then you go home.

So why do Senate RINOs make the big issue that of citizenship and permanent residency? No one wants it, and no one is asking for it.

If you discard that strawman of an issue, the Senate is left with a handful of simple ones: how to fix CIS/INS to handle the applications; how to beef up border enforcement; how to beef up domestic enforcement.

The citizenship issue is a bogeyman designed to prevent a vote on the simpler but more difficult issues.