What if the congress and president go against the illegal immigrants?
349753
Oh, there will definitely be rioting.  If they have the guts to wave our flag upside down, and insist that they deserve the American rights, even though they are not American, they will certainly riot if we try to deport them.
748820
The President can Veto anything congress passes.\nThe only thing the dems can do IF they take over is not renew the tax cuts whichmeans we will all pay more taxes, and the economy will suffer.
384424
I think George Bush is just buying time to allow the issue to cool off. He really doesn't want to remove the illegals because of votes. You just watch what this snake pulls on America about all of this.
667531
The President wants to close the borders. This has international and domestic impacts.  Internationally, Mexico is our next door neighbor and a huge source of its funding comes from the funds sent home by immigrants to the United States.  Both the Presidential candidates in Mexico are running on platforms regarding OUR immigration policies.  We like friendly relations with our neighbors. \n\nDomestically, employers want to have access to lower wage workers.  Closing the borders will limit their access to those workers.  Their opposition would make it harder for Bush to address the issue.\n\nDomestically also, there is a huge illegal immigrant population which has never been screened for diseases we have eradicated here, as legal immigrants are screened. Probably more importantly from Bush's point of view, that huge group could easily hide a multitude of terrorists, since they have never been screened for that, either.\n\nSo in building a coalition to address this issue, Bush came up with a guest worker program.  As an incentive to screening the illegal immigrants already here, and for the more human reasons a number of people have already raised on these pages, he came up with a path to citizenship within that program.  That would also bring them within society so that the hard case undesirables wouldn't be shielded by Hispanics who would normally have nothing to do with them.\n\nHe is defending the country as he sees it.\n\nWhat do I think of his approach?  I could design a program with all of those elements that I could live with. Part of it would be to make sure the employers funded the social services needed to support their work force. That would also make their wages more on par with those of our own workers which would help even the playing field. Another part of my plan would be to make the whole thing conditional on a truly secure border. Unfortunately, Bush hasn't asked me to write up the program.
588774
The president is always in the "lime-light." Therefore, he is the one to get blamed. Whereas congress is two seperate bodies of many people.  Plus people like a fall-guy.
719290
its time to vote for people that do take this seriously and want to up hold the laws.  I have a feeling that if nothing is done there will be alot of new faces in congress.
461199
I hear the Mexican government is going to have people at the larger ones. Our secret service will be there to baby sit them. Not a good place to riot.\n\nThe hypocrisy of all this sickens me. It is a federal offense in Mexico to cross into it. Yet their Politicians complain we are talking about doing that up here. \n\nThey work on the problem of illegals in Mexico, only at our request. By handing out maps on how to cross quicker?\n\nIf Illegals wanted to do the world a favor, they would go back and get those slimes out of office.
971862
No before long the american people already tired of illegals and the handouts they get when others can not, the jobs that they take from legals will get fed up and vote in people that are a lot harsher in views than those of the current administration and if the leaders then do not want to do anything then the people will take it state by state to end the freebies. The only sane solution to the problem is to invade Mexico make it the 51st state then there are no illegals
332294
If Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO(ANY EMPLOYER) of any business that was caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - \nNO EXCEPTIONS - \nThen within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States And Back To Whatever Country They Came From.\n\nIf They Cant Work They Wont Stay\nNo Deportation Costs\nThey Wont Come Back\n\nThe EMPLOYERS Must Be Held Accountable\n\nGood Luck With Your Report
462537
Yes, but it won't happen with a repuglican congress unless it looks like they are going to be voted out because of it.
815818
Well, I think your facts are reversed.  As you know, many conservative Republicans are not in favor of making helping an illegal alien from another country, for example Mexico, a crime.  As you probably also know, in spring and summer of this year, there were nation-wide protests relating to this hot-button issue.  However, at his press conference the other morning, President Bush proclaimed that he could pass his agenda as far as immigration goes.  Therefore, Dem's are more likely to help President Bush pass a law making assisting illegal aliens a felony.  Therefore, I believe that you have your facts reversed. Wouldn't you want to help your own people?  Unless many of the Mexican-Americans were uninformed of the Dem's stand on this issue, then I would have to say that they would not vote Dem's into office because of their stand on this issue.
981706
It's really the only chance to do so...\n\nWithout a Congress that will actually force Bush to follow the law, and impeach him for the criminal violations of federal law he's admitted to, there's nothing to stop him.\n\nAnd it'll be too late in 2 years to stop the downhill spiral into madness.
957879
If Congress does not do the right thing ,we the poeple might have to.
1152414
Absolutely not.  It is so out of step with what people in this country want (deportation of all illegals, an end to illegal immigration, a restrict reduction of legal immigration) that the senate bill representing Bush's plan is essentially dead in the water.
317949
Illegal immigrants are those who choose to go against the law.\nSlaves are forced to work by those who go against the law.
681772
The president can't make or change laws. \n\nThat is a dictatorship. \n\nIf you want to help the poor citizens of this country get on the phone or email your  state Representative in the US Senate or House and tell them to keep illegal immigrants out.  The poor I know (people making $5-$6.50 an hour)can't get food stamps or health insurance. But illegals can't be turned away. That isn't fair. \n\nSend the illegals home - Then the poor of this country could not only find a job but receive a decent wage and afford health coverage. \n\nAnswering your question:\nIf I was president - I would change the rules of office and MAKE laws that protect American citizens first.
972423
Congress will reassemble for a lame duck session, but nothing on immigration will happen.\n\nThere is no one bill, and no broad consensus among the many bills. Republicans and Democrats both would like the issue to go away.\n\nWhat's happening is that the states are imposing rules regarding illegals, and the Feds are being pushed into the position of objecting to the enforcement of existing Federal law. It's an issue that is turning into a metastatic cancer on Republican politicans.