[Logical me]

Illegal immigration reform must happen. So how about some ideas. YOU DIE HARD WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT SEND AROUND 20 MILLION ILLEGALS BACK ACROSS THE BORDER AND KEEP THEM THERE. Wake up! If the communists Democrats beat us on this one you can wave 2014 goodby.

Miss Romney yet? Remember the lesser of the two evils? When will common sense happen.

[jospehm20]

No. Romney would not have changed much. He would be for this now if he were in office.

[raybbr]

YOU DIE HARD WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT SEND AROUND 20 MILLION ILLEGALS BACK ACROSS THE BORDER AND KEEP THEM THERE.

Is that sarcasm? Or, do you really think so little of US sovereignty that you are willing to simply give it away?

[jimbo123]

Cue the RINOS FOR A PERMANENT RAT MAJORITY minons...

[TexasCajun]

Wake up! If the communists Democrats beat us on this one you can wave 2014 goodby.

Hook, Line & Sinker.

[House Atreides]

Illegal immigration reform must happen.... YOU DIE HARD WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT SEND AROUND 20 MILLION ILLEGALS BACK ACROSS THE BORDER AND KEEP THEM THERE.... When will common sense happen.
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The real question is when will DEFEATISM disappear from within our ranks. I’m going to assume you simply left a “sarcasm” tag off of your post-—otherwise, it could have well been written by Rove.

[kabar]

Illegal immigration reform must happen. YOU DIE HARD WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT SEND AROUND 20 MILLION ILLEGALS BACK ACROSS THE BORDER AND KEEP THEM THERE. Wake up! If the communists Democrats beat us on this one you can wave 2014 goodby.

The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Arizona proving that it does.

And legal immigration is far more injurious to this country than illegal immigration. We need to drastically reduce the numbers of legal immigrants.

Miss Romney yet? Remember the lesser of the two evils? When will common sense happen.

Romney supported "self-deportation" and no amnesty. Self deportation is just another name for attrition thru enforcement.

So how about some ideas.

Advocate a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. Conservatives need to provide the American people with their own comprehensive immigration reform plan, i.e., give people a reason to vote FOR something rather than just attack the other side’s proposals. Such a plan should contain the following elements:

 Formulate a merit based immigration system that brings in the skills and talents to keep us competitive in the global economy;

 Reduce immigration levels based on need more closely approximating 300,000 a year;

 Eliminate extended chain migration, i.e., family reunification, limiting it to the nuclear family,

 Secure the border;

 Enforce existing immigration laws to reduce the current illegal alien population and limit future illegal immigration, i.e., attrition thru enforcement. Enforcement would include: (1) ending the job magnet; (2) increasing coordination at the federal level by eliminating barriers to information sharing among agencies; (3) leveraging state and local enforcement resources; (4) fully implementing the US-VISIT Program to track and deport visa overstays; and (5) make mandatory and improve such programs as E-Verify and 287 [g] authority to assist employers and law enforcement in identifying illegal aliens;

 Eliminate birthright citizenship and the visa lottery program;

 Ensure that anyone who enters this nation illegally is not rewarded by being permitted to stay and work here; i.e., no amnesty;

 Streamline the processing and adjudication of immigration cases;

 Promote pro-immigrant measures that help newcomers assimilate and embrace the values and principles of our Founders and the Constitution.

[Boogieman]

“YOU DIE HARD WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT SEND AROUND 20 MILLION ILLEGALS BACK ACROSS THE BORDER AND KEEP THEM THERE.”

What’s your suggestion? We give them citizenship so 50 million more show up in the next wave?

[amihow]

Quit propagandizing. Could round them up, but mandatory e-verify rigorously enforced with big employer fines woul
d work. Then a regulated and needed work force could be admitted.

[amnestynone]

Cant you understand that 20 million illegals will make the Democrats a majority party for a generation? If we enforce the immigration laws most of them will have to go back. If this does not create a permanent Dem majority then the Dem's will just do it again. And if you can't stop them this time how on earth are you going to stop themthe next time, fool!Got that!

[Will88]

Illegal immigration reform must happen.

No immigration reform is needed because all that was done in 1986. And those politicans promised that the 1986 amnesty would clean up the probem, the borders would be enforced in the future, and the same problem would not recur.

And some of those same honorable politicans from 1986 are still around (Chuck Schmer comes to mind), so I know that no new amnesty could possibly be needed.