"Do you want your children (or yourself) to do those jobs the rest of their lives?"
Go back and reread this thread later on. IMHO you are just missing the points raised here.
Heres yet another angle for you to consider. People who go through a legal process, who come to this country first and foremost to become American citizens, have a profound respect for their adopted country.
My ancestors sure did, my father and uncles all served in WW2.
All people spoke English, they became assimilated into the American community and American culture at large.
Doing so allowed them to reap all the benefits and opportunities of American citizenship....(no entitlements in those days).
They became educated, worked hard, and raised themselves up.
One even went on to design high tech electronics for Avionics and DOD programs.
They got all their start LEGALLY. Thats in part why their kids respected the country and its laws.
I thought we all discovered after the debacle of the Great Society that giving people something for nothing doesnt work.
Why give a particular group of people who have broken the law a head start on the most precious gift of all....citizenship? What message will that send to their children and grandchildren?
Having cheated the system and won...why wouldnt they encourage more of their freinds and family back in Mexico to do they same...thus perpetuating the problems of illegal immigration?
Bush's proposal does not give anyone a head start on citizenship. There is a lot of misinformation being put out by the professional fund raising groups and repeated by the anti-immigrant chorus on FR.