[CharlesWayneCT]

I know it’s not popular here, but if all he did for illegals was give them a better guest worker program, I’d be fine with it — so long as they had to go home first, and others waiting in line got to use the new program first.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

.....and if they went back to Mexico once the harvest ended. (fat chance)

[NormsRevenge]

I hear what you are saying, however, that ain’t what was or likely will be proposed next time is my hunch, and there will be a next time.

[lesser_satan]

Why? I know people from India, Pakistan, Costa Rica, and other nations who are highly educated, highly skilled, English-speaking, and anxious to assimilate and be a part of this country. Why do they have to wait in line behind a bunch of illiterate, unskilled, uneducated peasants (many of whom don't speak English) who bring NOTHING to our economy? We have more than enough native-born idiots to do whatever unskilled work we require. We have prisons full of otherwise worthless losers who would pick lettuce if the choice were work or starvation. There is no shortage of them.

IF we're to import workers, why not educated, skilled workers who want to be part of America? We could even use the resultant brain-drain to a strategic advantage. China can't conquer space without engineers, and Iran can't build a bomb without physicists.

[Penny]

I have a guest worker plan, too. At harvest time, put all able-bodied American citizens to work. To fill in the gaps, all Americans imprisoned for non-violent drug use would get the chance to work off their sentences, saving our taxdollars to house and feed them.

Such a creative idea would be too far-reaching an idea for the stupid and appallingly lazy crew in Congress, of course. Isn't its approval rating in the same category as that of GWB? Where's the driveby with that statistic?

Regards . . . Penny