It reflects an understandable frustration, at the local level, that we've got a broken immigration system, I don't think it is going to contribute one iota to stopping people from coming to this country.

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This is a half-hearted and half-baked solution to the problem of illegal immigration.

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They're telling the feds they're falling asleep at the wheel, ... Such pressure from the bottom up will make politicians see they can't hide under their desks anymore.

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There has to be a more satisfactory answer than let's do more of the same. It's a bit of folly to say people don't put down roots and aren't needed in these jobs.

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(I tried) to look cute.

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It is neither realistic nor desirable to round up and deport 11 million people, but the Specter proposal will exclude many undocumented [people] from ever becoming part of America's future, thereby perpetuating the problem of illegality the bill must solve.

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Pew seems to be giving us the data that people come when there are jobs, when the economy is strong, ... It (the report) gives breathing room for policymakers struggling to come up with a solution.

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You can't talk about dealing with this 11 million population unless you engage the 11 million.

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