This sounds very good on first blush. Here's the down-side.
We pass the very laws Mexico has at this time. Ten minutes later Mexico changes it's laws and demands we do the same.
End of bliss.
Screw Mexico. We pass our own laws which close the border and allow a very limited number of guest workers, 500k to 1,000k max. That's not per year. That's in total. No more than 500k to 1,000k at a time period.
We register those new guest workers and expel the rest. I don't advocate we round them up, but we make it tough on employers and refuse to give freebies to illegal aliens from a dead set date. Beyond that they go without unless they can get Mexico to pay for it in Mexico.
It's a rhetorical gambit, with no hope of passage. I do have hopes that people will hear, read, and know that Mexico's immigration laws are some of the most un-compassionate in the world.
At which point we immediately go down and buy the damn place.
Howdy, Moosekiteers!
The Administration's dogs have been barking hard that the Senate's amnesty bill is "a done deal". Meanwhile their tails are between their legs because they know another strong public push on their Representatives would prove otherwise - and they know it.
That push for a final bill that resembles HR 4437 would not only reestablish some sovereignty and improve security, it would affect Mexico's upcoming political exercise in ways that may actually encourage reforms. Mexico, it's time for an "intervention" courtesy of drastically reduced Yankee dollars and angry young men with no where else to go.