Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal prisons are illegal aliens and given the strain illegal immigration puts on our health care, it's a small price to pay.

Of course the rich want illegals to cross the border, it’s the easiest way to break the unions.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

In other words, the illegal aliens will get about 95 percent of what they want immediately and simply have to wait several years for the rest, but President Bush, Senators McCain and Kennedy, and others want us to believe that this is not amnesty.

wide-ranging access to both prisons and inmates.

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.