How are we supposed to trust the government to figure out how to process 12 million people?

That is part of the reason that I'm am for building a fence .

And your headline portion of your question is interesting in more ways than one . How can we trust them to process 12 million. . . . .? Well , how can we expect to even 'find' the 12 million if we don't offer some type of incentives ?

This line has been drawn many times in my lifetime . Each and every time they say this will be the last time , and it's not . Short of having a 'police state' there's no way any government can find 12 million people , let alone ship them all back home . That is why I'd like to see this time be the last time . I'll begrudgingly agree to the proposal , but only if and when some type of finalization is added to it . Like a fence and border patrols , and , strict enforcement including strict punishment . We must stop drawing new lines , and make this one the last line !!

If credit card companies can process 100 million applications, a system can be figured out to do this.

That's exactly what Newt said, but he distorts. The Fort Dix guys had come to the US with their families as tots. 23 years ago we weren't worried about terrorism. The police interceptions were mostly for traffic violations.

Gemini: The FBI detained 15000 Arab immigrants right after 9-11, and deported many. These guys were Albanians.

its a tuff call any way you look at it but if the goverment would actullay do what is on the books we never been were we are now ther is no way to deport 12million it may be 20 million as far as we no but it all starts with the men on the street why should they do all the paper work for 9 dollars a hour for gov to let them go in the morning

I said it 100 times or more. After 9/11, the first thing the gov't should have done was to turn the INS upside down and figure out who's in this country.

Government seldom solves any problems, only creates them and/or makes them worse.

Just wait until a committee somewhere that you cannot talk to or even find out who the members are, starts deciding whether your cancer can be treated or not and how it will be treated.

i never heard they were here for 23 years "illegally" you made that up didnt you?!!

and i would rather have these 12 million people register with the government than live underground.

And there will be no change in the next 23 years because big business wants it that way.

Its all about cheap labor and big profit margins.

Not to mention to manage our health care too.