Again, your opinion. The only way a "guest worker" program is going to fly is if it contains all of the safeguards and enforcement measures previously posted.
"...amnesty is the way it's going to go down."
Add wishful thinking to your opinion. For that to happen means the GOP is ready to toss its conservative base over the side (30%+). No matter how much "hispandering" the White House and its co-conspirators do, that loss will be fatal to many political aspirations. Anyone supporting an amnesty, or a sham amnesty, can kiss his/her political career goodbye.
"The question to those interested in affecting public policy is what types of controls/assurances will we be able to implement as part of the amnesty program?"
No kind of controls/assurances will be an acceptable tradeoff for rewarding 20+ million law breakers with an amnesty.
"There are lots of issues to be worked out."
Most of which would not have been necessary had our Washington crapweasels not decided to ignore enforcement of our immigration laws.
"It will be interesting to see if FR mounts an effective means of participating in these policy decisions..."
What you see is what you get. It won't be pretty if the unindicted co-conspirators in Washington continue on their present course.
By the way, your comments come across somewhat similar to what one might anticipate from a political flack paid to beat the pro-illegal drums. And don't bother with the "I'm just an interested citizen" defense.
Here's the bottom line for you. FR is a conservative site for conservatives. Most of us, clearly a very substantial majority, believe strongly in: American sovereignty; protected, secure and controlled borders; and the preservation of American culture, customs, traditions and language. These are our values.
What are yours?
We also believe the Constitution is a document meant to help define for all the protections the government is responsible to provide and the guidlines we use to treat each other with respect. Toss a dose of the religious and parental teachings and the country is a reasonably safe and free country.
The Constitution provides for defending from invasion, something Bush and previous administrations have failed to provide.