>>If Perry can support a plan that would identify and give visas to criminals, I mean illegal immigrants, so they can come and go freely across our borders, then he can support a plan that would identify and deport those very same criminals, I mean illegal immigrants, I mean guest workers.<<
No, you don’t mean “guest workers”; you don’t even mean “illegal immigrants”; you mean “criminals” as you so clearly state.
While granting that a lot of these “criminals,” as you describe them, are causing huge social problems in the States, the vast majority are here working to help their families succeed, whether here (illegally) or back in their home countries.
You can continue to be a hard-ass the rest of your life if you want, but if the Republican Party adopts your position, it will be a permanent minority party within 20 years, without a chance of recovery. Perry, and even Gingrich and Romney, and frankly, any humane person, understands that, so I’m comfortable that yours will not be the prevailing view of our party going forward.
Perry sounds to me like the candidate most likely to get the border under control, and then implement a guest worker program that satisfies most of the parties involved, with the obvious exception of people like you. I’m not sure who you’ll find to vote for, but I’m reasonably sure that person will never be the President of the United States.