Absolutely right, Bill, enforcement will be an issue. And some will beat the system. But, as I said, if we don't provide a path to citizenship for illegals, we are heading for the situation in France, where they have a large group of very angry people who see themselves as second-class citizens. Not a good idea.   Furthermore, every group of immigrants has enriched the US---and been opposed by people already here.

Ironically enough, if there is in fact no immigration bill but the punitive one the House has come up with, what I predicted in my first post may well happen--Hispanics will be convinced that Republicans are against Hispanics--and the Democrats will benefit. Democrats will in fact not have clean hands on this either--Reid didn't even allow the test amendments--to see if the pro-immigrant coalition would hold together--to be voted on. But it will not be easy for Republicans, some of whom favor the Senate bill (including Spector and Bush) to explain the arcane workings of Congress to angry Hispanics--all the Hispanics will see is the abhorrent House bill.