Amnesty is not a good policy, and it's not fair to those who took the legal route to live and work in this country. It penalizes those still waiting for citizenship and makes a mockery of our immigration laws. Worse, our Party is willing to hurt legal immigrants in the hopes of increasing votes for Democrats. Unfortunately, many illegal aliens are uneducated and easily manipulated by church leaders who tell them to vote for anti-gay, anti-abortion, right wing politicians.

For those who wish to help the poor children of people from other countries, why not just go do that work? The are plenty of agencies and not-for-profits that help children all over the world. Why prioritize kids of illegal aliens over children of people who did not break the law to come here? In fact, since we misinterpret the 14th Amendment by applying it to children of illegal immigrants when it was meant to give citizenship to offspring of emancipated slaves, we're already helping those kids just because they were born on American soil. As citizens, they immediately qualify at birth for federal programs that pay for their food, housing and medical care. They can even get Social Security as children, even though their parents never paid into the system.

It caused a big stir, Amnesty International even got involved in their defense, but they were still put on a bus to Belgium because their Superior Court ruled that it wasn't fair to the people who played by the rules and if they gave them an exemption, it would create a precedent therefore would have to do the same for everybody else in the country illegally. They even stripped their son of his Dutch citizenship, citing that because his parents were there illegally, so was he and could not be recognized as a citizen!

My neighbor in San Francisco was on a L-1 during the last amnesty in 1986. He was rejected for a green card because he was in the country legally. Amnesty only applies for illegals. How is that fair for people here legally who would like to stay permanently? It rewards illegal behavior!  

The Dutch reasoning makes a lot of sense to me! My husband had to wait 14 yrs to get a green card and he holds a master's degree in Engineering. The paperwork, medical and financial burdens he had to go through, I believe none of these people from impoverished countries would be able to afford or meet the criterias legal immigrants have to fill in order to come here, therefore the call for blanket amnesty.

Does anybody believe that they will learn English? Will they have to come back to the Immigration Dept for verification and what if they still can't speak English, then what? They'll deport them for cause?  

It's all about getting a big block of new "grateful" voters and a big giveaway to Corporate America, the US Chamber of Commerce and the Catholic Church which wants all these new mostly catholics parishioners, after all who will fill their coffers should they be deported?

I'm one of the thousands of unluckies who has had her identity stolen by an illegal immigrant. Her action caused my state health insurance risk pool to stop paying for my chemotherapy in mid- treatment, citing fraud. Had I not been able to cough up $40,000 on the spot, God only knows what my outcome would have been!

I've had it with people who feel entitled to come here illegally for whatever reasons just because most can walk across the border unlike the others overseas who apply and wait! Why make an exception?

Today's push for the so called "immigration reform" is a misnomer for providing amnesty to those who broke the rules to enter this country, and is specifically pushing for increasing the number of Mexican immigrants allowed into the U.S., even at the expense of citizens from other countries immigrating. I understand liberal desire to help those in need and I know it's not considered Politically Correct to state what I'm saying here, but I do so because I believe federal policies should not encourage people to break the law. More importantly, we should always support legal immigrants over illegal aliens. And if we want to help people, why not help the poor children of Mexican citizens who don't break the law by sneaking across the U.S. border? What makes those children less important to us than the kids of illegal aliens?

Progressives should think carefully about why we're so knee-jerk willing to help illegal aliens at the expense of 1) immigrants who followed the law to live here, 2) potential immigrants who are currently waiting their turn to live in this country, and 3) citizens of countries like Mexico who are just as much in need of our help as those who break the law to have babies on American soil. I submit that the harm done to our country in allowing and even encouraging illegal immigration does a disservice to all three of the above groups of law abiding people, as well as the taxpayers who have to support anchor babies to the detriment of our own neighbors who desperately need our assistance.