Thanks. I just try to see more than one point of view. Personally, if it were up to me, there would be no immigrants allowed in at least til the economy is better. Especially the H1B visas!
This issue should not be only addressed to Palin(who may not even run in 2012.) . Last year SJB proposed that all Republican candidates have to fully answer those questions BoR posed to her about those '12 million illegals' already here. That was a great idea.
The reason why we are sensitive to this issue is related to your comment above and the GWB history. Yes, amnesty is toxic now because of high unemployment. But lets go back to 2007 when the RINO party was gung ho about ramming through a amnesty bill with Pelosi’s cooperation. The argument pushed on us was he had this huge booming economy that required lots of low skilled workers to fuel it, specifically illegals were needed for home construction. The liberal Baltimore Sun did an editorial I posted here making the argument that the US has a shortage of low paid unskilled workers.
Well it turns out that the Bush economy boom that required all these illegals was a huge credit equity bubble (sort of a ponzi) that had to end in a market crash sooner or later. If we had passed an amnesty bill based on the imaginary endless growing economy we would have an even worse disaster now. Note that the areas hit WORST by the market crash were areas of high illegal immigration : NV, AZ, FL.
I look on any proposals for anmesty with deep suspicion and think that candidates need to be asked about it. Unfortunately I dont trust FNC to do it.