[RasterMaster]

No way I can support someone who says we need to give “aspirations of citizenship” or “make a deal” (’as long as it’s not easy’) for those here illegally...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkN2fYnMTBs

...that was what Bush/Kennedy/McCain were pushing and it already failed TWICE!

[GCC Catholic]

Whoa there. You clipped out the most important part of that quote. Here's the full part of the quote concerning the pieces you mentioned: "...so that they have 'aspirations to citizenship' but not make it so easy that it is unfair to the people waiting in line."

This was compared to the options of 'driving them underground' or 'driving all of them out', both of which are unworkable; the first because it's destructive, the second because the sheer number of people makes it unworkable. The key to Fred's statement is that the correct response is something that is comparable to what legal immigrants must do.

Encouraging "aspirations to citizenship" doesn't have to be negative as you paint it. My grandmother had "aspirations to citizenship"... a HUGE and ESSENTIAL part of that is to cease being Mexican/Latino (or in my grandmother's case, Moravian) and becoming American, with all the assimilation that entails.