[Jumping in red OK]

I hope you're right. I'm worried US voters who are friends and relatives of illegals or just sympathetic to them won't favor tougher measures, like deportation or employer penalties for hiring illegals. It's the only reason I can see why the president hasn't been tougher on this issue. He's worried about losing a block of voters. Like I said, though, I hope I'm wrong, and this is purely a political calculation on my part--nothing to do with what actually IS RIGHT TO DO ON THIS ISSUE. That much is certain.

[Dominic Harr]

I hope you're right. I'm worried US voters who are friends and relatives of illegals or just sympathetic to them won't favor tougher measures, like deportation or employer penalties for hiring illegals. It's the only reason I can see why the president hasn't been tougher on this issue.

As I understand it, the Prez and other politicans are for this for 2 reasons:

1. The assumption that legalizing millions of voters will cause 60%+ of them to vote for you.

2. This 'guest worker' program, like the H1-b program that has been such a failure in the IT world because of fraud, etc. Business money is behind easy access to cheaper labor.

This is our chance to save the R party from itself, I think.

If left to their own devices, the Ds will take Congress. If we agree that Congress needs a wholesale change, but insist on replacing republicans with better republicans, we can save the day.

[ichabod1]

I think the US Government is fearful of the unrest these "men of military age" would be causing if they were at home and unemployed. Too bad they're not more worried about the unrest they're causing here. Guess they figure we're big enough and strong enough to absorb the impact. That is a very dangerous gamble.