[Brian Allen]

PING!

[dennisw]

Good insights by VDH. I always respect his opinion and fresh ideas.

[FITZ]

Good article bump.

[jimt]

Excellent post !

[browardchad]

BUMP!

[skeeter]

Forthcoming complaints about Bush bashing not withstanding, this in the best summary argument I've seen.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[junta]

If this would have made it into the dead tree version I would have thought Hell had frozen over.

[putupon]

grant legal status to thousands

Correction: 8 million + 5 family members of choice ea.(min.)

[cynicom]

Immigration plans?? Will someone tell Bush they are already here.

[Amerigomag]

A heads up for the conservative California voter.

Carl Rove does not need California's electoral votes later this year to reelect his man.

Therefore nothing we do or nothing we say is going to have an effect on the obvious Hispandering currently being conducted at the expense of our republic.

We are pissing into the wind and might as well not waste our collective energies complaining.

But if other conservatives in states that Bush must win would stand up for us it might make a difference.

[AZLiberty]

Politics, even after 9/11, will not permit a discontinuous solution to this problem. Consider the image of INS rounding up thousands and thousand -- or millions -- of brown-faced men, women, and children, and sending them back to a hopeless fate in Mexico. Consider the impact on the highly leveraged real estate market when millions of home-owners and tenants disappear.

Unless we have a 9/11-like event related to illegal Mexican immigration, politics will only support a continuous solution to this problem, one that points policy in the right direction without abruptly changing the lives of millions of people.

Perhaps something like a 5-year or 10-year phasing-in of a special tax on the hiring of illegal immigrants, with significant rewards and anonymity to whistle-blowers.