The new immigration legislation was PLANTED! A solution from an immigrant-

The proposing Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is merely working with the white house to present overblown immigration "reform" to make the president's immigrant registration program look like the "moderate compromise".

We have seen this before with Medicare, where the confusing pharmaceutical company giveaway that we have now was the level headed choice compared to the alternative.

This is a way to avoid the real issue, homeland security. Under the "talking point" blanket of protecting Americans neither of these proposals will solve the issue of homeland security. What it will do is create a massive new bureaucracy, register only a fraction of the real numbers of immigrants, and prosecute employers thus raising even further the price of simple products such as food.

President Bush is using prejudice to his own end. Rep. Sensenbrenner is not proposing this to try to keep the vast amount of illegal Canadians from working in Wisconsin, because there probably can't be more the 100 in his whole state. This is an affront on the Hispanic community.

I am a Canadian citizen working in the US on a green card. I personally have a proposal of my own because I hate it when someone gives an opinion without a solution (Rush, Bill, Sean, etc.):

An employment company purchases a number of social security numbers with specialized codes (they are currently coded by the area from which you were born or gained the card). Each immigrant then can gain that social security number by working for that company and under that contract can permanently gain that social security number after three years. If they are dissatisfied with their current employment company, another employment company can purchase their social security number without the immigrant losing any time. Immigrants that come over the border without registering with a company will have to be married to or the child of a registered working immigrant.

What this does is privatize the process with in an industry that already exists, the employment industry. This will also centralize the process instead of spreading it across a bunch of different industries. Also, this will regulate the overflow making sure there are enough jobs for all of the immigrants. It will create a regulated reporting system. It will collect taxes from the company that could be directly put back into protecting the borders.

There are other benefits and hurtles of course. I am not a politician, I am just a common sense type of guy.

I'm not the biggest proponent of privatization, but in this case, since there is a current system in place that could very well adapt and stand to make money, it may just work.