[Cincinatus' Wife]

How is he opposed to amnesty when he said he’d want to make them citizens?"

He wants them OUT in the open. Many will return home when the laws are enforced. Many will have to get in line. But we'll know who they are.

[GeronL]

Making them citizens is amnesty.

“Out in the open” is a ludicrous statement. They are out in the open, they are in front of Home Depot for one. They go to government schools, they go to ER’s and get welfare everything else.
:p

If you want them “out in the open” then make the schools, hospitals and welfare programs ASK them if they are illegal and put it in a Homeland Security file. He probably opposes even asking them if they are legal or not.

The way to fix it is to simply use e-verify, say no more welfare and free schools for illegal aliens and the problem will solve itself.

[Publius6961]

He wants them OUT in the open. Many will return home when the laws are enforced. Many will have to get in line. But we'll know who they are.

It takes monumental ignorance and cluelessness to assume that being "out in the open" will reduce the drain on the welfare, national health care and educational systems.

How that would prompt them to "return home" evades me entirely.