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Thanks, Pukin Dog. You are, of course, 100% right on this. There is no will out there among the American public to round up illegal Mexican immigrants.

I essentially agree with Pukin Dog on this. I do not know all the particulars of the various legislative vehicles, but I do know this from a political standpoint:

1. with midterm elections coming, I trust GWB and Karl Rove's political judgment much better on this issue than some of the ideologues on this thread and others.

2. border security (even stepped up enforcement of some sort) is a winning political issue for November. Employer restrictions and sanctions are necessary and overdue.

3. Conversely, deportation is a disaster for the GOP. Can anyone just imagine the television commercials that will demagogue this issue as the GOP "tears apart a family," "denies children education, food and health care," etc. etc.

4. It is not difficult for the RATS and their media handmaidens to connect the dots from the GOP is anti-immigrant, to the GOP is anti-Hispanic, to the GOP is anti-minority, to the GOP is against all blue collar people.

5. A deportation public policy enacted into law would spell political disaster for the GOP... it would be greatest political gift we could give the RATS for a generation.

Wiser political heads must prevail.

We accomplish nothing if we are out of power, particularly when it comes to the federal judiciary. The RATS are licking their chops to portray the GOP as anti-Hispanic.

"We accomplish nothing if we are out of power..."

We may as well be out of power NOW. Our 'seniority' status in both the House of Congress and the Senate may as well not exist. The GOP has been spineless, flaccid, limpwristed, wimpy and slack.

I believe you and others who agree with your point of view may be surprised to find that many Republican citizens are indeed Conservatives who've become weary of too much compassion, especially when it comes to our country being sold out from under us without our say-so. We have a representative government that is elected. I object to being treated like some sort of inconsequential peasant once those for whom I voted are ensconced in power. Perhaps it is time for a modern day Tea Party.

[The best 'things' in life are not things.]