Forbes and the Wall Street Journal are all for illegal alien employment. The big business lobby's insistence that businesses bear no responsibility for hiring illegals is what will make the Republican politicians cave and propose a "guest worker" amnesty. The result will be that masses of conservatives won't vote in Nov. and then Forbes and the WSJ will whine that the Dems won the election. The big business lobby just doesn't understand that there aren't enough millionaires in the US to elect anyone.
I don't understand the Republican Senate. GWB did not ever, not once, call for anything more than a guest worker visa with a fixed termination date. You can go back and read his orginal speech from 2004 and he's very clear that amnesty and permanent status are not what he had in mind.
In fact, he's very clear that after six years, you go home and start the immigration process if you so desire, from the end of the line as it properly should be.
I don't have any great problem with that in principle (although the devil is in the details).
In any case, what is it with Senate Republicans pushing for a "path toward citizenship"? I think this is the one and only thing that is impermissable in the minds of most Americans, because it promotes breaking the law (e.g., amnesty) and it's unfair to those who follow the rules.