What happened after the first two amnesty's ?
I would expect nothing different from another.
The only guaranteed financial occurrence would be negative. More, now legal, lining up for welfare. And another 20 mil or so fresh Illegals taking their place, willing to work for even less.
Insanity. Knew Bush would bring it up again, but this soon!!
Yeah, but the national security angle this time gives such an easy opportunity to justify clamping down. Bush didn't cause, but inherited the current illegal immigration mess, and clearly, fixing this the 'right way' is pretty much a political and logistical impossibility. So you 'give in' on one end, but you hammer some laws into stone on the other. Not many would oppose this, I can't see why the Administration doesn't do it.