Before everyone starts screaming "amnesty!", let's get a look at the proposal. What I read a few days ago was in the form of a guest worker program. I know that is just as bad to many of you, but let's look at this:
1.)It would reduce or eliminate a lot of the illegal immigration. Workers that had jobs lined up could come in legally for a specific period of time, then go home when the jobs were done, instead of staying here on welfare.
2.) It would allow us to monitor and screen the people who do come into the country better than we do now.
3.) A lot of the illegals who now work under the table would pay US taxes.
4.) It would help prevent voter fraud, since we would be better able to determine who was here on a work visa. As a matter of fact, some of the Democrats don't like the proposal, saying that Bush wants these people to be workers, not voters" (well, duh!). It would also help us to send these people home when their jobs ended.
The proposal I have seen is not perfect by any means. I would like to see the law changed so that a if a worker has a baby while here on a visa, that child does not automatically become a US citizen. But I don't see this as a surrender to political correctness. There have been Mexicans coming across the border to work for longer than any of us have been alive. If they can come in legally, work the season in the fields, pay taxes, then go home when the season is over, knowing they can come back the next year to work, they are much less likely to move their whole families here to be a burden on our welfare system.
The sole purpose for the Second Amendment comes to mind.
Yeah, don't vote for the SOB. And tell him so. When he thinks you won't have anywhere to go this November, prove him right... Don't go the polls.