[Wallace T.]

The down side to the President's guest worker proposal is that it would put 20 million illegals on the path to citizenship. Upon becoming citizens, they would be able to bring relatives into the country. The measures the President has proposed to control immigration are too weak to effectively control the flow of illegal aliens. In another few years, we will have x million more illegals within our borders. Reagan's plan did not work in 1986, and Bush's plan will not work in 2006.

The net effect of this plan will be to ensure, within a decade, millions more Democratic voters and ensure a possibly permanent liberal majority in the country. Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and even Texas and Oklahoma may tip permanently into the Democratic camp as California did in the 1990s.

By that time, the Bushes will have retired to a safe, gated community somewhere, where they can do the charity ball/country club circuit for the remainder of their days. The rest of us who cannot afford that lifestyle, especially those of us in the Southwest, will have to witness our English-speaking, middle class world transformed into the newest outpost of the Third World.

[rodeocowboy]

Very well said!

[JeffAtlanta]

The down side to the President's guest worker proposal is that it would put 20 million illegals on the path to citizenship.

Another downside is that guest workers will be more costly to employers than true illegals so illegals will still be in demand.

[TAdams8591]

"will have to witness our English-speaking, middle class world transformed into the newest outpost of the Third World."

That is already occurring in areas all over the U.S.