Thanks for speaking up on this topic. Just tonight I was engaged in a fascinating dinner discussion with a coworker whose father is still not a citizen to this day. He's a cuban immigrant, here for 35 years, with a career and a family and pretty much the American dream. But not the American passport.

I think it's such a complicated issue though. We can't reward illegals, and yet without illegals--most of them decent, hard-working, good men and women--our economy would crumble. The only way to enforce immigration policy is to punish corporate offenders. Which Bush will never do because that's like telling his CEO buddies that they have to fork over more money for higher wages, benefits, and healthcare for actual citizens. And I mean if the exxon CEO took home less than the 450 mil platinum parachute he just received because he was paying the people pumping his gas a decent wage...well, the horror of it all.
