He isn't going to do that...or, even if he does, AMNESTY has become a synonym for "guest worker program"...even though in HIS mind, and in mine, it is different.
SO...unless he stands up tomorrow night, and says that the National Guard will be put along the border, UNTIL a fence is built...and in the meantime, ALL illegals that are currently in the USA will be rounded up and deported...
NO ONE will be happy after his speech, NO ONE...and even then, the hundreds of thousands that have been protesting, the DEMS, and the Leftists groups, would come out BLASTING him for even suggesting such a plan.
This speech tomorrow night is a LOSE/LOSE proposition, but he has to do it.
Not if he puts it on Congress to vote yes or no on the National Guard being used. That is so going to put the Dems on the spot.
Of course, closing the border will not make any 100% percenters happy, but nothing will, so who cares? We can at least use the attempt as a reason for them to shut up.
I'll be quite happy if goes back to what he said in March 2004, leaves out the "path toward citizenship", and allows the once-renewable, three-year work visa.
There remains the question of how (broken) CIS is going to process 12 million work visas without severely harming the several million people with *legal* immigration applications outstanding (some for 5 to 10 years and even more).
The unfairness of that element of the program literally makes me nauseous.