[Kozak]

AND with the provision that any illegals here would have to return to their home country, and reapply for guest worker status. Any caught here after a certain date would be deported with NO CHANCE AT Guest worker status , or other visa. They also need to make sure that the guest worker program is tightly controlled with real teeth for violations.

But realistically, none of this is going to happen until we have a major catastrophe as a result of our lax border control and immigration policy. Then God help the responsible politicians when the populace vents it's wrath.

[eeriegeno]

Then God help the responsible politicians when the populace vents it's wrath.

Amen to that statement. I surely thought that Dubya was smarter than he appeared today but I guess that he is, after all, just a politician looking for his next vote. This will bite him and the pubbies big time in years to come.

He was right on a number of points today, most importantly that our nation is a nation of immigrants. But he is having a problem distinguishing between 'legal' immigrants and 'illegal' immigrants.

GW said that jobs will be offered first to American citizens? Does that mean that there will be a published list of jobs for which I can compete prior to an illegal being placed in that job? I think not.

He also said that 'illegals' after being made legal, because they have an employer, would be able to change jobs at will? Between jobs they would have no employer sponsor and would become illegal again? Go figure?

Finally, it seems that we are just coming out of a major economic downturn (fabricated or not fabricated for political purposes) where American workers, 350,000+ of them are having a problem finding work? Does this announcement that Dubya made today mean that next weeks unemployment index will be zero?