[SoConPubbie]

What! Lobbyists? Working for a presidential campaign? In fact, lobbyists who support the legislation their candidate supports? Amazing!

In case you are just too obtuse to understand what is important here, it is that his advisors took money to lobby for a position on an issue that is wrong.

It is wrong because it goes against everything the GOP used to stand for, the rule of law, smaller government, lower taxes, and the most basic principle of all, being truly represented by your government(which runs across both parties).

1. Rule of Law because the illegal aliens commit a misdemeanor when they cross the border and felonies when they obtain a fake ID and then use if for employment or health care.

2. Smaller Government because of all the freebies the illegal aliens receive ratching up the size of the government.

3. Lower taxes because of all the freebies, medical care, the thousands per child for extra effort to educate their third-world spanish speaking children.

4. Being Truly Represented by your Government because 80% of the American public (judging by polls) do not want amnesty and yet McAmnesty continues down that path.

[wideawake]

The fact is that America's immigration laws are broken. They need to be revised.

It should never have been illegal for able-bodied Mexicans seeking work to come to the USA in the first place - our backwards immigration laws, created by Democrats in the 1960s, are themselves wrong. Just bad law.

The fact that illegal aliens avail themselves of government largesse is can easily be fixed by changing government programs. It's not as if there isn't already a ton of waste in these programs to begin with, apart from immigration.

The same goes for taxes - the fact that taxes are too high has nothing to do with immigration - it has to do with a Congress that never met a program it didn't like.

As far as the American public opposing amnesty is concerned. McCain should take it as a message that his stance on the issue is far too lenient.

The fact remains that deporting every illegal immigrant in this country would be an economic and human rights disaster, and our focus should be on eliminating aliens who commit violent crimes or engage in the drug trade.

The illegal aliens whose criminal activities extend to trespassing the border and buying papers in order to stay should pay a far steeper price than McCain is willing to impose, certainly.

But some kind of just punishment and clear road to legal rehabilitation needs to be found.

And neither the let 'em all in people nor the drive 'em all out people have a workable solution.