You've really got two options, I'll tell you what they are but you probably aren't ideologically capable of accepting either. After I tell you the *only* two options available you'll no doubt plead for a 3rd option of "enforcing existing laws" (yeah, that's worked really well so far). Option 1. Leave all illegals unregistered and anonymous.
Option 2: Offer enough of an incentive to convince illegals to voluntarily register themselves with the federal government.
Your option #2 requires enforcement of existing laws anyway, so I'm not sure you're on solid ground deriding that.
Here's an option #3: Tom Tancredo has a guest worker proposal that would require applicants do so from their home countries. Do you have any objection to that?
"Here's an option #3: Tom Tancredo has a guest worker proposal that would require applicants do so from their home countries. Do you have any objection to that?"
The Bush plan does the same thing. To avoid paying a fine for being here illegally, they can return home and register from there. If they register here, then they pay a fine.
The key thing in both GWB's and Tancredo's immigration plan is to get them *registered*.
What most of the far right and far left are fighting is that registration. The extremists don't want illegals to register with our government because *that* would lead to a real world solution instead of an endless problem that can be milked for selfish political and personal benefit on their part.
But no, I don't object to Tancredo's plan. He's on the right track. I am susicious of his plan offering enough of an incentive to convince 8 million illegals to voluntarily register, so in that respect I find GWB's plan to be superior, but either Tancredo or GWB's plan to register illegals is fine by me.