[Don'tMessWithTexas]

I don't think that anyone should criticize the Presidnet about the illegal immigration issue until they go to the U.S./Mexico border for a day either in Texas, California or Arizona. Rather than hurl hand grenades at the POTUS for trying to address the problem, offer a VIABLE alternative.

[Thebaddog]

It doesn't take a political genius or a lame critic to understand the strategy of creating uncertainty in the mind of the opponents. If you take one in ten hispanic voter away from the democrats, the strategy worked. The middle elects the president and not the fringes.

Morris and Wall are just selling ink.

[NCLaw441]

Bush's proposal is not law or enacted policy, is it? I see this as a political move. Unlike campaign finance reform (which WAS a mistake, but very likely one that will hurt the dems more than the GOP), there is little chance that Bush's proposal will be enacted. Thus, President Bush will perhaps gain among Hispanic voters (at least some of them) and gain points with Vicente Fox. And dems will have to again, say how much they hate Bush, while offering, again, no alternatives of their own, further exposing the only tenet of the democrats: "We hate republicans."

[Penny]

Well, I'll offer just one before I leave for work: Offer a one-year grace period for all illegal aliens to "pack it up" and return to their homelands where they can apply for citizenship. If any alien is discovered after the grace period to be living in our country, that alien will be deported immediately and barred permanently from applying for U.S. citizenship.

As one increasingly surrounded by illegal aliens (TEN of them live two houses from me and disrespect my property in ways in don't have time to list), I think my solution is but a second step. Sealing the border in cooperation with Fox sealing his side is the first; ditto the Canadian border. To do otherwise is to say that all murdered border patrol officers gave their lives in vain.

HOGWASH to those who would claim my plan is "physically" impossible. With will there is way.
Regards . . . Penny (Dallas)

[gaspar]

Reinstitute the Bracero program of the nineteen fifties that was killed off by Cesar Chavez. It offered no possibility of citizenship, but did offer work to Mexicans on a systematic basis.