White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010 - NYTimes.com

White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010 - NYTimes.com: "Laying out the administration’s bottom line, she said it will argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes enacting tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and the people who hire them, and streamlining the system for legal immigration, but also what she called a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”"

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Yeah... so you expect illegal immigrants who snuck into this country to avoid the tough and fair way currently in place, to take a new tough and fair pathway to become legal? Sounds a little... I dunno... insane maybe? Yeah, insane. More likely, the "tough and fair pathway" is actually going to be an "easy and free highway" to legal status, which is totally unfair to those who came here without breaking the law.

Maybe if there was a fine involved? You know, for breaking the law. So, instead of deportation, you pay your fine, give your address and all that stuff and go through a process. If your address or other information is faked, then you get deported with no future chance at becoming legal. The amount of the fine could be scaled on income, on whether they paid income taxes, etc. But a fine is to be had no matter what. If you don't pay the fine, then you get deported, unless there is a just cause.

The fines should go to Social Security. No, not border patrol or anything else, just SS. SS should be a locked box that can receive money, and only give out money to those who are eligible to receive it. Not that this will save SS, it'll just keep it alive long enough for me to get my share after I retire in like 15 years. :)