Well, they'd probably at least charge them for coming over the border and blow them away if they didn't pay.
Show of hands -- does anyone REALLY believe that any illegal alien will be required to pay a $2000 fine before being given the goods (citizenship)?
I'm betting that what'll happen is that when they finally manage to finish fine-tuning this turd, and shoving it down our throats, there'll be a little clause buried on page 435 saying that they "have" to pay the $2,000 fine, "or, upon affirmation of economic hardship, promise to complete an equivalent amount of public service."
Notice the abundant weasel-words, i.e., they won't need to PROVE "economic hardship" -- they will only have to make a statement of "affirmation" (i.e., they have to SAY so). And, they won't need to do any "public service" -- they will merely need to "promise" to do it. And, of course, note the total absence of any enforcement to ensure that they perform it -- or, penalty if they don't.
THIS is how the Rape of America will be culminated. NWIH are we going to "coerce" our "valued guests" to "suffer economic harship". Hell, if right f'n now, they came to MY door and said "Pay $6,000 for your family, or leave the country", I'd have to ask for directions to the bus station. And I was born here nearly 60 years ago. Of course, MY income is, um, "impinged" by having to finance our "valued guests".
Speaking of which, how'd y'all like that presto-chango? Wasn't it amazing the way one minute, we're talking about a "guest worker plan", so that Mexicans can come here to pick lettuce, and then GO HOME -- and the next minute, we are talking about an expedited CITIZENSHIP program for tens of millions of illegal aliens?
Wow.
If nothing else, we now know what it was really about from the start. "Guest workers" had nothing to do with it. That was just the pretext used, to allow them to get "the issue" front and center, so that they could jam this abortion of a "reform" up our collective bung.
Goodbye, America.
¡Hola Amexica!