and it’s a good idea…

But, Democrats made minced meat of it with the canard that the GOP wanted to create a second-class citizenry. “good enough to work, but not to vote”

Sometimes practical compromises prove easy pickings for the other side. Especially when they salivate over a future voting bloc.

…because I’m not convinced that many illegals care about citizenship half as much as they do about just being able to work here and earn a higher wage. I would probably be willing to support it if their legal residency could be revoked in response to their becoming unemployed and therefore unproductive.

By the way, do you know of any organizations advocating anything like your or my suggestion? Unfortunately all I’ve been able to find as a solution is total deportation. I want to find an organization I can donate a small sum to.

In Oklahoma, they tried to make police round up illegal immigrants. They refused. Not that they did not want to, they did not have the manpower. In the end the police won. Fight crime or round up illegals? The police knew their job.

I would go after the employers. That makes more sense. Heavy fines equate to no hiring.

I am in no way suggesting that we put illegal immigrants in prison. There are plenty of alternative sentences that make a lot more sense such as community service or some form of work release.

I’m tired of having crowds of people who have broken the law marching around demanding their “rights.” I’m sick to death of laws being passed to let criminals off the hook because we can’t make them obey the rules of our society. It’s a dangerous thing to do, and its counter-productive.

For example, NY regulates handguns (not to get into the 2nd amendment) but illegal, unregistered guns are rampant all over NYC. Solution? The brilliant politicians decided right before Christmas to hand out $100 gift certificates out to anyone who turned in an unregistered gun, no questions asked. EXCUSE ME? Criminals getting preferential treatment to law-abiding citizens? I have kids I have to buy presents for – nobody gives me an extra $100 to pay for them. I guess I should have had the foresight to get an unregistered handgun.

The illegal immigration issue is the SAME thing. If you permit them to stay, you are rewarding their criminality. No one is discounting the legitimate contributions of immigrants – legally here, but illegals are destructive to our way of life. They can destroy entire industries like construction, simply because their labor comes cheap.

In Mexico, illegals are given prison sentences and THEN deported, so they can stop their whining about how racism is motivating the movement against illegals. We are infinitely more generous to them than Mexico is.

The reality is that we cannot make up for the fact that some countries in Latin America have, for decades, failed to provide the economic and political stability necessary to provide their own people with jobs. NOT OUR FAULT.

George Will recently suggested that we stop allowing the children of illegals to be citizens. If their arrival here is undocumented, then their children cannot be granted citizenship, period. For many of these people, that is the golden ticket that brings them here. Take it away. Do not reward criminality. I don’t get to break the law and walk away, neither do you. Why should they?