[RS]

"and since this Administration hasn't been especially diligent in prosecuting such employers, nor has it pressed for a mandatory verification of employees' rights to work,"

as opposed to which previous administration that has ?

I don't see Congress passing all sorts of new laws to control this - Bush is providing a plan where noone else has.

[txdoda]

I don't see Congress passing all sorts of new laws to control this - Bush is providing a plan where noone else has.

Well, you missed the VOLUNTARY SS# verification bill that they passed & GB signed.

After tax-dollars were spent to get this set up nation-wide, our 'critters' made sure it's to be used VOLUNTARIY......ya know, ALL those illegal employers will be using it. /sarcasm

[WRhine]

I don't see Congress passing all sorts of new laws to control this - Bush is providing a plan where noone else has.

It's a plan all right. A plan to turn America into a Banana Republic. Employer-Employee Matching accompanied by a huge increase in the legal immigration quota which is already at staggering levels? What does THAT mean?

[Fatalis]

as opposed to which previous administration that has ?

I don't see Congress passing all sorts of new laws to control this - Bush is providing a plan where noone else has.

The failure is bipartisan. The plan proposed by President Bush would reward that failure and encourage more of it.

Do you have any objection to a guest worker proposal that would require workers to apply from their home countries?

[NJ_gent]

"as opposed to which previous administration that has ?"

Well, Clinton actually put together a great operation for stemming the flow at the borders. The reason they sneak across now as opposed to walking across is because of something called Operation Gatekeeper. It was an excellent start, but Clinton never followed it up with anything, and now the doors are being wedged open further than they were with this 'program' being discussed. The President's plan is a bad one. It's about as ridiculous as giving drivers' licenses to illegals so they'll driver safer on the roads.