There is talk that eventually an compromise will be worked out that will in fact close the border in exchange for some worker program. (With worker fingerprinting I hope.) This may be the best we can hope for, as the workers do boost the social security base, which assists in the extension of that program.
Closing the border is essential for terror security, and identification of all our illegals will allow them to be kept away from the voting booth. But I agree it is a sad commentary on how far from our borders, language, and culture we have come. BTW I am Paul Revere Society too.
Translation of Gov Speak: "Give us our Guest Worker Program and we promise to start upholding the law and constitutional duties to defend the nation from invasion." "If you don't give us our Guest Worker Program the above is null and void and the status quo will remain operative."
If the federal government does not have the integrity to uphold the law and protect our borders, they certainly won't do it after they get what they want. Any compromise offered to sell this monstrosity is merely convenient political cover for the politicians...just like the 1986 amnesty fiasco.
I predict that if Congress capitulates to the administration on the Guest Worker Program with the promise, going forward, to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws that it will, quickly after passage, default on all promises and the Guest Worker Program will be debased by fraud and corruption. Nothing is so permanent as a guest worker program.
Don't you know we are trying to make it legal for illegals to vote in Kalifornia?<(•¿•)>