No More Blather

You support the McCain-Kennedy immigration scheme, and you claim - assisted by Barack Obama - that you do not support amnesty and benefits for illegal aliens. But, isn't that simply a matter of semantics?

Kennedy-McCain would wave a magic wand and declare millions of current illegal aliens to be legal residents, and eligible for billions of dollars worth of benefits. One day they'd be illegal aliens, the next day they'd be legal residents and able to receive billions and billions of dollars.

So, if we parse your statement very carefully, then you don't support benefits for illegal aliens: we'd have to wave a magic wand first before giving them benefits.

But, are you absolutely sure that nowhere in Kennedy-McCain are there benefits for illegal aliens while their status is illegal?

As for the amnesty claim, won't millions upon millions of potential illegal aliens across the world perceive it as amnesty, no matter what you and president Bush try to call it? Won't the untold millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. perceive it as amnesty, and tell their friends in their home countries that it's amnesty? Won't that encourage many millions more illegal aliens to come here?

And, if McCain-Kennedy passes, won't all the millions of U.S. citizens and voters perceive it as amnesty as well?