What are you people talking about? They've solved the illegal immigration problem with a brilliant stroke of the pen! They'll just declare it legal. This should satisfy all the people who are constantly saying "I'm not against immigration, I just don't like ILLEGAL immigration."
I'm surprised you're the first to bring it up. More than surprised, actually.
It will not satisfy those of us who oppose illegal immigration, because if this article is true, then the Republicans have taken a leap into the absurd. Kafka would feel right at home.
Here's a simple paradigm penned by a writer of letters to the local newspaper:
If you walk into your bathroom, discover someone has allowed the tub to overflow and the floor is flooded, what do you do first? There's a mop and bucket handy, and the chain for the bathtub's plug is in easy reach.
The first thing you do is turn off the tap! Then you pull the plug to allow the tub to drain. The last thing you do is grab the mop and bucket and start mopping up the overflow.
Now apply this to illegal immigration. The first thing this country needs to do — in fact, we must do or anything else we do will have no real effect — is turn off the tap. Until the borders are effectively sealed against illegal immigrants, regardless of where they're coming from, any other measures will have no effect.
Right now we're mopping the floor while the tap is running.
According to this article, what the Republicans want to do is toss a sopping wet sponge onto the flooded floor, call it border enforcement, and then open up two more free flowing taps, one labeled for legal immigration and the other the road to citizenship! The proposal is so at odds with what people want and so contrary to a rational notion of managing immigration that it simply makes every Republican associated with idea look crazy . . . or more to the point, Kafkaesque.