You just found an answer to the people who ask the question, "just how are we going to round up the illegal aliens?" Or I should say, perhaps President Bush gave you the answer but you don't even see it.
What better way to find the illegals and create a papertrail with their names and other personal data, than to offer them a "temporary worker card". It's not like the illegals would get one out of a magazine insert. They would have to APPLY for one. And perhaps they will even get a photo I.D. of them. Sounds like this could be a huge step in the right direction.
And you want to call this "amnesty"?
Yes. Allowing lawbreakers to benefit from it is flat out wrong, and is totally unfair to those who follow the law.
The illegals are here illegally. The punishment for that crime is deportation on a first offense and it is a felony on the second offense. The way to get "right" with the law is to quit being here illegally. In other words, leave. Beyond being here illegal, many aliens are also guilty of numerous other crimes including our employment laws, tax evasion, driving illegally, identity theft and identity fraud, and the list goes on.
President Bush is proposing forgiving all of these crimes that would cause serious grief if a citizen got caught committing them. Rather than fining them for their many crimes and deporting them for coming illegally as the law would require he is proposing to reward them with legal status. It is temporary status but it is most definitely a get out of jail free card. You bet it is amnesty!
What better way to find the illegals and create a papertrail with their names and other personal data, than to offer them a "temporary worker card".
Who cares what there names are? Building this paper trail is just going to be an expensive bureaucratic mess and they are going to lie about their identities anyway. Let's just make them leave. There are 11 million of them! They are everywhere; they are simple to find and having their names and addresses is not going to make it any easier. We have the names and addresses of the 300,000 Central Americans and that is not making it any easier to get them to go home.