It deals with immigration reform. It proposed to increase some security along the southern United States border with Mexico, allow long-time illegal immigrants to gain legal status, and to increase the number of guest workers over and above those already present in the U.S. through a new "blue card" visa program.
Comprehensive immigration reform is code for amnesty. It is now and it most certainly was back in 2006. Americans knew it was amnesty and opposed it in great numbers. I find it impossible to believe that RINO Mitt Perry didn't know what he was asking for in his letter that was signed by 2 liberal democRATs and his fellow RINO, Arnold SchwarzenKennedy.
In Decenber 2006 (after the senate bill was dead) Perry said LINK: With a more secure border and a reasonable guest worker program we can allow guest workers to help build our economy without offering citizenship.
Perhaps Perry thought about amnesty and changed his mind. Judge for yourself. Perry does not make me comfortable on this issue. In any case, I have grave doubts that a huge guest worker program could come into being without leading to a "path to citizenship." Whether Perry wants that outcome may not matter if he opens the giant guest worker gate. The same goes for Palin and Romney.
I think the only thing that stopped the amnesty juggernaut in 2006-2007 from succeeding with a corrupt congress and misguided POTUS was the amnesty crowd's own greed (trying to include gang members etc).