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Palin couldn't have made it clearer that she supports amnesty.

Look. There will be amnesty.

Every one of you should get used to the idea now.

The very best that can happen is that we assure that the border is enforced before agreeing to what form the amnesty will take. Americans will never -- never -- agree to watching millions of people forcibly removed from the country.

Ain't gonna happen. You're deluding yourselves if you even entertain the thought. I'm as principled as any of you, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic. This is politics.

“Every one of you should get used to the idea now.

The very best that can happen is that we assure that the border is enforced before agreeing to what form the amnesty will take. Americans will never — never — agree to watching millions of people forcibly removed from the country. “

That is why Palin’s approach is a close to perfect as we as conservatives are likely to find. Close the border, strengthen the I9 process, makes all illegals register or face deportation, create a guest worker program that sets a specific termination date, then deport when that time is elapsed. eliminates the liberal grandstanding and prevents the illegals from getting the right to vote or to stay indefinitely. I will say again, Sarah Palin is the only politician that understands this. To try to force deportation of 12 million people at once will make amnesty a near certainty. Slowly bleeding off the illegals through a guest worked program that expires their say will not solve the problem instantly but will reduce the odds of amnesty being granted. Palin is a shrewd politician.

The public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.

Ain't gonna happen. You're deluding yourselves if you even entertain the thought. I'm as principled as any of you, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic. This is politics.

If we have an amnesty, it is game, set, and match for this country. Everything else that follows is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Rolling over and accepting it means that you are resigned to the destruction of this nation. I am not going down without a fight.

Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation: Much attention has been given to the fact that the bill grants amnesty to some 10 million illegal immigrants. Little or no attention has been given to the fact that the bill would quintuple the rate of legal immigration into the United States, raising, over time, the inflow of legal immigrants from around one million per year to over five million per year. The impact of this increase in legal immigration dwarfs the magnitude of the amnesty provisions.