[SolutionsOnly]

This article is dead on! Thanks for posting it.

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[VU4G10]

Don't expect much opposition to Bush's proposals. Right-wing nativists will rant and rave, but their reasoning is always suspect.

[ravingnutter]

FYI...once again...the President does not make laws, Congress does and Bush clearly stated in his speech that it would be up to Congress to hammer out the details. Check out:

Tancredo's Guest Worker Bill

[Isolationist]

This is where we should learn from the illegals. Like the illegals who had their "strike" here in California – we should set up a real national strike where the US Citizens who oppose legalizing lawbreakers and believe in our sovereignty don't show up for work, shop, or send our kids to school. Sending a clear message to Washington that we oppose legalizing illegals. The best day to do this... why April 15th of course.

[Dog Gone]

Mexico, in other words, should agree as a quid pro quo to control its borders and stop illegal passage across them.

The author made a lot of excellent observations, but this remark is off base. It's not Mexico's job to guard our border.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"You get delicious glass of water for posting nice article."

[TheDon]

Immigration advocates say the proposed measures simply recognize reality: You've got 8 million illegal immigrants here, most are gainfully employed, government has neither the will nor the resources to find and deport them and so, voila, let us embrace them in the spirit of true American pragmatism.

As a utilitarian argument, it is irrefutable, and the very Americans who say in polls they don't want them here are the same ones who employ them by the millions in fields, firms and households. At least the new proposals have the virtue of not being hypocritical, like so much past immigration policy. Government is simply throwing up its hands. I imagine managers at Wal-Mart, under investigation for employing illegal immigrants, are relieved.

At its heart, it is a catastrophic admission of failure. It is a confession that, despite massive border controls, a generation of immigration reform bills and billions of dollars spent in a ballet of smoke and mirrors, America's borders are essentially wide open.

Agreed on all counts.

[TheDon]

It will not stop more illegal immigrants from coming. For a decade, I have said that amnesty would only be justified if it simultaneously cut off the flow of millions more people awaiting the next amnesty.

I've come to the same conclusion. A good article, thanks for posting it.

[dangus]

One way to make them legal:
SEND THEM BACK TO MEXICO, DAMMIT!

[dangus]

Here's an idea: For each Mexican invader across our borders, we quarter one G.I. in Mexico city. We can call it a "Vincentive" for Fox to call off the invasion.

[browardchad]

Federal Anti-Reform Control Evasion act.

FARCE, for short.

Maybe next year we'll decide to pardon all convicts because our prison system is not working -- we can call that the Federal Anti-Reform Prisoner Act (FARPA).

[South40]

FARCE indeed.