[Southack]

"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.

[Fatalis]

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.

It's hard to call it the same thing, since the Tancredo plan requires that all applicants do so from their home country. Legalizing illegal aliens here is going to be the stumbling block for the Bush plan.

[Luis Gonzalez]

While the Bracero program was in effect, workers came, worked, got paid, and went home.

We decided to stop the Bracero program, and the workers simply stopped one aspect of their routine...they stayed here out of fear of not being able to get back in if they went home.