Originally Posted by Eddy117

I really fail to see how anyone can honestly say there is a viable way to seal up the borders, but lets say that it were one day possible to actually physically prevent anyone from running across the border or being smuggled in, what about those who came here and overstayed their visas? I know quite a few people who came here like that. How do you prevent that?

I heard some GOP congressmen saying that Reid's sudden shift from climate to immigration was all in the name of scoring political points with the latino community in Nevada but if you really look at how it is, the GOP candidates don't want to vote on a divisive issue such as immigration because they risk losing their base and losing the Latino vote in November. For them it's easier to shoot after the midterm elections but that would only give them a month and a half to even work a bill that has provisions to legalize those already here and to stem the flow of those wishing to come here. CIR might be doomed to fail, but it has a greater chance of being passed now than after the midterm elections before the swearing in of the new congress in December and January-which could be Republican-controlled mind you.