[Dominic Harr]

I hope you're right. I'm worried US voters who are friends and relatives of illegals or just sympathetic to them won't favor tougher measures, like deportation or employer penalties for hiring illegals. It's the only reason I can see why the president hasn't been tougher on this issue.

As I understand it, the Prez and other politicans are for this for 2 reasons:

1. The assumption that legalizing millions of voters will cause 60%+ of them to vote for you.

2. This 'guest worker' program, like the H1-b program that has been such a failure in the IT world because of fraud, etc. Business money is behind easy access to cheaper labor.

This is our chance to save the R party from itself, I think.

If left to their own devices, the Ds will take Congress. If we agree that Congress needs a wholesale change, but insist on replacing republicans with better republicans, we can save the day.

[Jumping in red OK]

That may be true, regardless of security risks--but they won't be voting in this election. Nothing moves that fast in government.