Bush wanted to make illegal aliens pay a FINE for being here illegally before they applied for a work visa and allowed to stay.
Since that's punishment, then you are satisfied with that plan?
Wrong.
Bush's proposal has the guest worker paying a "one time fee".
This will be the same "one time fee" that folks not here illegally will pay to get a guest worker visa, after all the illegals get one first.
So, there is no fine, and they get a visa before law abiding aliens.
Feel free to check out the White House fact sheet, which I've posted on FR many times.
Nope. They aren't citizens. I want them deported.
I'm a citizen. When I break the law and get caught I pay the fine whether it's monetary or prison time or both. The punishment for being an illegal alien is deportation which is very seldom levied on the perpetrator. Catch and release.
"Since that's punishment, then you are satisfied with that plan?"
The fines are ridiculously low. They amount to less than the entitlement spending that each illegal eats up in one year. Granting legal status will triple the entitlements. The fines are an empty gesture and do not target the MAJOR criminals who employ illegal labor in the first place.
Bush wanted to make illegal aliens pay a FINE for being here illegally before they applied for a work visa and allowed to stay.
"Since that's punishment, then you are satisfied with that plan?"
*That's exactly what they did in the 1986 amnesty, except inflation has brought the price up. So no...on my part.