[Rick_Michael]

I'd rather lose some of the vote (which all latin people won't vote in unison), then to pander to a few interest groups whom will most definitely grasp on to these individuals....they'll all be leftists. I guarantee you not one of these illegals will vote for a Republican, if they get a right to vote.

We might as well shoot conservatism in the head and get it over with, if we support amnesty. The closest thing I would accept to amnesty is...

1)They never get the right to vote
2)They don't get SS, medicare or medicaid. No welfare, anywhere. They must pay for a high deductable insurance policy.
3)Their fica/medicare taxes go to supplementing their children through school, jails, and enforcing the workplace.
4)And obviously if they commit a crime they get booted out.

That's the only acceptable way they can be allowed to stay (for me).
Also it would be nice to go to a merit system, but a more refined one, where we immigrate to industries with excessively growth in wages...where there's a huge labor shortage e.g pilots, doctors, etc. Anything far past inflation...

[Rottweilerson]

Dick Morris is a highly paid political consultant who bats for the highest bidder, left or right (this case both), right or wrong.