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"This is an amnisty because it lets the criminals off the hook for their crimes and makes them legal."

I'll give you the part where it does let them off the hook. But it doesn't neccesarily make them legal. It makes them elligable to enter the system at the back of the line.

But in reality no politician out there is planning on mass deportations as far as I know. Do you???

Basically they're already here and they're untraced and unaccounted. Their illegal status allows their employers to undercut wages and keep farm work in a non-competative state in comparison to other industries. This initiative is more likely to promote wage increases that may make the work of produce picking more viable for a young American who needs or wants a summer job. Yet even if he doesn't the jobs will still be there and they still need to filled in the meantime.

The plan Bush proposed today makes them legal. The part about getting into the system at the end of the line is about becoming citizens not becoming legal residents.

As for mass deportations; all the administration has to do is enforce the laws already on the books. It is illegal to hire an illegal alien. Corporate executives can go to jail for doing it. Put a few executives in jail and watch the jobs dry up.

It is also illegal to conspire with a criminal to commit or cover up a federal crime. Put some of the people who harbor the alien criminals in jail and fewer of them will help the criminals.

There is also the Rico law, which is mostly used to persecute Christians who are trying to keep babies from being killed. The RICO law allows the government to confiscate the assets of any company or group that is suspected entering a criminal conspiracy. It is then up to the entity that forfeited the property to prove they are innocent.

If the feds confiscated a couple of companies, say Tyson Foods, the jobs would really dry up. That’s how you fix the problem. You don’t fix it by rewarding the criminals.