[Corin Stormhands]

You forgot the matter of the guest worker amnesty that he supports.

Maybe because you're just making that up.

Throughout this debate I've consistently said the legislative priority should be to secure the borders and stop the flow of illegal entry. That fundamental responsibility must be addressed. Congress should move to forge both a stable and consistent legal immigration policy and a responsive legal-temporary-worker plan, but no plan should reward illegal behavior. That's why I just cannot support the convoluted three-tiered amnesty deal that was brokered last week because it rewards illegal behavior.

...So the question is, what should we do? My view is secure the borders. Everything from unmanned vehicles, to virtual fences, to actual fences, more personnel, detention centers. The places where you need an actual fence are where you have a big inflow. There are other places where you could use unmanned aerial vehicles and these unattended ground sensors. ... The point is to secure the border, and with more personnel, with more technology, and with more actual fences, we will stem the flow. Because unless we control our borders we will not be able to control our destiny as a nation...
One Tough Border Collie U.S. News and World Report. April 17, 2006 issue.

Just because he doesn't say box-em-up and ship-em-home doesn't mean he supports amnesty. It is simply fantasy to believe that we will EVER deport 10 million illegals.

They're here. And we have to deal with that because we haven't in the past.

If you believe otherwise, what you're smokin' is just as illegal as they are.

[Blackirish]

Just because he doesn't say box-em-up and ship-em-home doesn't mean he supports amnesty. It is simply fantasy to believe that we will EVER deport 10 million illegals.

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You are right there ...you can't round up lttle old illegal Mexican grandmothers and toss them over the Rio Grande....but would Allen consider a fence?

Not a virtual one ...a fence.

[Old_Mil]

It is simply fantasy to believe that we will EVER deport 10 million illegals.

Why is that? Because you want them here? Frankly, I could never vote for a candidate who believed such a thing to be true. In World War II, an estimated 18 million Germans served in the Wehrmacht. Yet we managed to deport them from Paris...they had Panzers.

Securing the border is meaningless if we are to give these 10 million some sort of amnesty and launch a guest worker program.