It’s crazy how DUMB the DC-class of both parties thinks we are. They casually interchange immigration with illegal immigrants and name-call anyone opposing amnesty. Someone opposed to legalizing everyone and keeping porous borders is anti-immigrant.
THEN, you have the same crowd playing word games with the definition of amnesty. Like Brit Hume (who I usually like), completely and purposely redefining anything that is short of just legalizing everyone immediately as ‘not amnesty’. Amnesty is anything giving people here illegally a shortcut or leg up in the naturalization process. That’s a moderate view. A stricter definition is even allowing someone who broke our laws to get here any ability to stay and not be deported.
I see room from some moderate right solution...extending work visas to get people here in a legal stance...but absolutely no path to citizenship related to that new status. Mass roundups and deporting is not politically viable....but we can tighten border security, strengthen employer verification, expand worker visas and fix that system to attract and keep high skill tech workers (which is the main goal of the techie push for comprehensive reform). Personally, I’m fine with that. I’d even give a nod to children who came here at a young age becoming a citizen at 18. Not their families, but just them.
Why reward illegal behavior? You just get more of it.
America has 5 million unemployed science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers. The only 'shortage' is in STEM workers willing to take the Third World wages that gobalist corporations want to pay.