I am not saying the illegals are trash...
I am saying we cannot REWARD lawbreaking...
the very least we need to expect from people who want to be Americans is that they have respect for LAW and order...
heck- we have a hard time teaching that to natural born Americans....
choosing to do things the right way is not easy....but it is the right thing....
Conyers is guilty has sin.
I know you cannot reward lawbreaking. But let's take that class of illegals who became illegal because BICE or INS didn't send them the right form and they didn't know they had a deadline. They became illegal because they didn't know better. I don't have any numbers (but neither do the people who come up with these estimates), but I would bet the number is at least 30%. Do we punish them for failures of our government? Do we break up families on the Holy principal of just the law? Or do we try to make the Law conform with reality. Believe me this is true. I had to have a Congress critter help me when I was getting my wife her first green card. And that's because I can read legalese. If she had been on her own she would have been illegal. Heck, I know some of her friends who are technically illegal because of a screwup like that. That's why I just can't go along with these things.