Rig--

Dream on. Let's be realistic. Who contributes the most to PAC's--on both sides of the aisle? And haven't you noticed that businesses are contributing more to Democrats now than for quite a few years (articles in the WSJ about that). They know what side their bread is buttered on.

And they're very concerned about provisions that would punish them for, as they see it. inadvertently hiring illegals by missing something in their backgrounds.

It's a good bet that any meaningful sanctions on employers would have been stripped out the immigration bill just defeated--even if it had made it through the Senate.

That brings us back to dealing with the 12 million we now have--and with the long-term problem. I still haven't heard anything better than a path to citizenship for all current illegals-- without leaving the US--not "amnesty", but requirements like learning English, proving no criminal record aside from the act of illegal immigration itself, getting in back of everybody who is now in the legal system, etc, It's not waving a magic wand.

And expanding legal immigration opportunities.

And sooner or later--my guess is, soon after 2008-- this kind of solution is coming. Restrictionists just threw away their own best chance to have a law more to their liking.