Thank you for giving your honest opinion.
I guess I don't understand why, if you "don't agree with amnesty", you are willing to give in or go along with it instead of fighting to prevent it? That's why I asked about whether or not you were just going along because of some loyalty to Bush (who says it isn't amnesty, but it is amnesty, and insults my intelligence in saying so). Why not find and support other Republicans who are also against it?
Perhaps there is no way to 'deport' 12 million illegals (probably much higher), but if we do what we should have been doing all along......the border is secured, laws are enforced, jobs and benefits (housing, cash, food stamps, medicaid) dry up and they risk arrest for being here illegally.......what choice will they have but to go home? They'll deport themselves. Or are you afraid if Bush/Congress don't meet their demands, they will start their Revolucion?
With an election hanging over their heads, shouldn't a certainty be effectively securing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws?
I guess I'm a fighter and I just don't get giving in so easily for ANY reason.
Illegal immigration is not a "fighting" issue for me. I've had too much experience with illegals who worked their butts off after I couldn't get legal workers to do a job right. I think that's why lots of Americans are just not that upset with allowing illegals to remain in America after we close the borders.
They've seen the work they do and their work ethic and admire it.