Why would Bush bother to want to fix a propblem that he has helped create?
We don't need a "comprehensive" solution, we just need the feds to control the border and enforce the laws.
We most certainly do need a comprehensive plan for dealing with the current 40 (20) year in the making problem. It has 3 stages currently associated with it - Those 3 main issues (as I see it) and the additional 3 issues regarding those currently here illegally (and who have come here over the last 20 years...not just the last 5). Do you honestly see mass deportation of the current 12 million illegals as a viable opition?? And if not, what should we do with them?
Understand the currently terribly flawed guest / temporary worker programs we have end up accounting for a sizable portion of those currently here illegally. They came here via legal means originally and simply never left. We have to find a system that helps reduce this greatly.
1. Border security (which is being addressed and there will be even more clearly put into this effort - From border agents, fences, anti-vehicle berms, ec).
2. The current terribly flawed guest / temporary worker programs. From which apprx 6 million of the current 12 million illegals have come from (meaning they came here via some type of visa and have simply never returned back).
3. What to do with the current 12 million illegals that are here - From which we have three options. 1. Mass deportation (which isn't going to happen. The logistics alone would be virtually impossible - not too mention we couldn't deport simply one six-year old boy without this Country practically falling apart). - 2. Find some type of way at making this current illegals become part of our legal and productive society and find a reasonable path for citizenship for those who wish to do so....as long as they meet certain requirements, pay fines, penalties, ect, etc. OR 3. Simply do nothing with these current illegals and keep the status quo.