[thecavemaster]

"Reform" that does nothing to stop the flood of illegal aliens into this country is a misnomer. The first thing that needs to be done when the basement is flooding is to turn off the water. Next, the job calls for a good sump pump - which requires stiff penalties (including jail time) for employers who knowingly or negligently employee illegals. Most illegals would self-deport if they had no means of supporting themselves. Finally, we need an immigration system that addresses our long-term prospect of labor shortage by promptly processing applications by Mexicans and others who have no criminal record and the skills needed in areas where there is a shortage of qualified workers.

Just granting citizenship to millions of illegal aliens (a/k/a prospective Democrat votes) is anything but "reform."

As long as the enforcement of the type of policy you mention is carried out with human dignity and suffering in mind, I could support it. One has to have "heart light" for immigrants working in America to send money back to relatives crushed by poverty in Mexico; however, let's face it, Mexico is getting the wealth in this arrangement and America is getting the social problems. In a for instance, Dodge City, Kansas, and that area, has tons of illegal immigrants working in the winepress that is a meatpacking plant. Those plants would find it impossible to fill those jobs without immigrants, legal and illegal. It's no pleasant place to work, it's no easy dilemma to think through.