[magna carta]

Presence itself is the problem.

[BobL]

“Presence itself is the problem.”

EXACTLY. It’s the demographics that will destroy us as the United States, as we know it. We either take control of those demographics, or we become Third World. Clearly Newt is in the Third World camp, even if he doesn’t understand it.

[fightinJAG]

•Finally, workers already in the U.S. illegally would be required to leave the country, apply for and legally obtain the Red Card, after which they could return if they had employment. They would have a powerful incentive to do so if the other elements of this plan were implemented – because once legal, they would have the same rights as any worker: minimum wage, health insurance and other benefits, decent working conditions, and the protections of the legal system.

"Finally, workers already in the U.S. illegally would be required to leave the country, apply for and legally obtain the Red Card" -- unless they've been here a sympathetically long time (actual time period subject to revision), have children and grandchildren, and go to church?