Legalize illegals?

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/18/obama-ties-immigration-to-health-care-battle/?feat=home_cube_position1

Step right up. Plenty for everyone.

The Democrats are masters at creating new constituents. First, they encourage the poor to breed and then they want to declare the illegal legal. Demographics is destiny...

After reading that article I get the feeling we're all in an overloaded boat in a rainstorm and Obama is drilling holes in the hull to let the water out. With leadership like this, we're screwed.

Well, it was the republicans who first decided to tie the healthcare debate to the illegal immigration issue, and it looks like Obama's just following their lead and is looking to see how far down the field they're willing to run with this.

What Obama said was that we should decide what to do about this issue once and for all. That's it. That's what's thrown the R's into a tizzy.

If the illegal immigrant population's status were to be resolved by any means at all, either by legalizing or imprisoning or deporting, it would be the end to one of the R's key fear cards that they get to play on every other issue that comes up. The R's need the illegals to stay right where they are: among us, in the shadows, to make us jump at every turn and to attract the blame for every one of our economic problems so no one starts looking at past policies. They know the threat of illegal aliens gets them blue-collar votes that would otherwise go to the D's.

It's partly a game of put up or shut up: He's going to call them out on their favorite bogeyman and expose the fact that they have no solutions, no proposals, no ideas, NOTHING to deal with this, this one issue that they employ as a constant spectre to threaten us with every day. Big elephant trap.

What can I say except, I told you so. :S

"Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally..."

Wrong Mr Obama-Kennedy, you DO believe you should provide extended health benefits to illegal aliens.

"...I also don't simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken,..."

Wrong-o again Mr Obama-Kennedy. Our immigration system is not broken, it's simply not enforced. But that's what you want isn't it? So you can offer amnesty as THE solution. Hey, when some pharmaceutical company illegally advertises their product, why don't you just declare the system broken and just give them amnesty? An insurance company overcharging their customers and not paying out benefits? Hey just declare the system broken and give them amnesty.

"Mr. Obama said legalizing illegal immigrants is a way to take the sting out of the entire issue." "...Mr. Obama is signaling that those here illegally eventually will get access to taxpayer-funded benefits."

I have just one question. When you hand out blanket amnesty, will they be allowed to keep their stolen or fruadulent SSN, or will you have to issue them a new one?

David E

We already have a process to legalize illegals....

Washington wants to hand out *Pass go* cards.

Rob