It is a problem that can be corrected without deporting them all. There was a bill that passed the Senate, and never voted on in the House. That bill would have gone a long way to correct the problem. Hard line Republicans made sure that the immigration problem will never go away.

If you don't want to give them a path to citizenship, that is perfectly acceptable. So, they pay a fine, and back taxes. What is the problem? "W" and Obama aren't making a big effort to go after the illegals that have not broken the law, since they have been here. The next president will do the same, when they find out, if they already don't know, the cost in deporting large numbers of illegals.

Making sure that they don't vote is nothing but political noise. The same noise that the RNC put out with the "we have to reach out o minorities nonsense".

There was a line in the 1998 movie Bulworth that said that minorities can't believe a damn word Democrats, and Republicans have to say. What was true in 1998 is really true now.