Kudos to everything 3020, just said and i`ll add some brutal truth and raw numbers to this "amnesty deal". Mexicans are liberals there i said it! a conservative party is only gonna get 30% Mexican vote regardless, that is the unvarnished truth, the other 70% are going to vote for the party that says they will give them the most free stuff and that is the FACT! To make +11 million Mexicans into voting citizens will destroy the Republican party forever(hold down your cheering there GTO
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I hear on NPR that the cheapest houses are in Texas because of construction companies hiring illegals as "independent contractors" that way they bypass FICA social security workman`s comp ect ect, construction companies on the up and up can not compete. How anyone can contort their brain to think granting amnesty is going to improve anything is beyond me...meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Even thoughtful conservatives that I respect like George Will are on the amnesty bandwagon, his only arguement is "you can`t round up 11 million people" ...well dum-bass, nobody is talking about that! I say, leave it the way it is, since we all seem to be addicted to cheap labor.
Mitt Romney did have the most sensible, compassionate answer of "let them self-deport" well see how that worked out for him in today`s political environment? If Romney had won that sensible policy of self deportation would`ve been endorsed by the American people and we could go forward to addressing the critical problems. But the way it is out of desperation, Republicans feel the need to pander for votes(Latino) that on a good day they will only get 3 out of ten. The arithmetic just doesn`t work.
