[SerpentDove]

>>Their presence needs to be addressed, and in while saying "deport them" is easy, doing it is a nearly impossible, No one has actually offered up any ideas on how to find, detain, and deport ten million people who have woven themselves into our society.<<

Not being contentious with you, your answers are well-reasoned, and I appreciate a reasonable discussion as I try to sort things out myself.

But it seems to me that this issue should be addressed before we invite untold more into the country to follow suit.

>>So yes, I support Bush idea of allowing for their coming out of the underbelly of society by granting them some sort of temporary legal status because it will encourage their returning home...<<

This bothers me too...we are talking about illegals who it seems to me would have little incentive to be come forward and be fingerprinted , I.D.'d, and have their mugshots taken so they can be identified later. After all, why do that, when they can obviously cross the borders already, and without paying any taxes or answering to Uncle Sam.

It doesn't add up.

[Luis Gonzalez]

We're not inviting untold more to come...unless they have a job, and if they do, let them come, but we are giving those already here an opportunity to gain some sort of legal status, and a way to come in from the dark.

I think many will take the offer.

By the way, illegal aliens do pay taxes, billions of dollars a year in taxes.

Again, even of this only works for a percentage of the total illegal population, it's a win-win.

It's a beginning.