By no means undocumented work force is good for the US if you think about its impact on draining welfare and health care cost. But....Uncle Sam can add billions of dollars to its coffers from 11 millions by simply legalizing them. As per Specter Bill, they have to work six years just to apply for green card. Then they have to wait 5 more years to apply for citizenship. I do not see any Amnesty on it rather a hard earned citizenship. By no means it is a free pass!!! Of course it would be a travesty if they cut the line and jump infront of some one trying to get permanent residency thru legal way. Over the years, many illegal immigrants already have families here. From my understanding, millions of illegal couples have millions of American children. Situation has got too dicey simply because the US government continued to ignore socio-culture impact by illegal immigration for decades. There is no realitistic way of deporting them. In other words, it is impossible no matter what conservatives like Lou Dobbs and Bill O' Reilly says. Ironioic it is but Nepalese who recently became a green card holder or naturalized as Americans are the most anti-immigrants and they have pretty much idolized those Dobbs and O' Riellys as their Demi-Gods. May be becoming a wanna be Americans or neo-americans give them larger- than- life- ego that how they are better than others who are trying to have better life in the US. I believe in playing by the rules, but the main culprit is the immigration system itself. They never followed a FIFO fair approach. It was broke. Atleast we have jobs and earn money to live a luxurious life when compared to illegals. They have to live in the shadows of the society and mis-treated by the employers. (You should have seen the faces of immigrants who wait in the corners of chicago streets in snow waiting for the contractors to be picked up to work for 6 dollars an hour, so that they can send some money home) Some state laws are so horrible that they move in to immigration friendly state. They cook and do all the menial jobs for the Americans. If this was pre 911 we would not be even talking about this. It is the neo-conservatives who are anti-immigrant under the pretense of homeland security want to get rid of illegals. This is how the politics work. Sad but true. By no means I am supporting illegal immigration, but when the US screws other countries to enrich their citizens, I dont see illegal immigration is going to stop. Also, talking about double standard, I do not believe 11 milliions illegal immigrants possibly could not come here in that monumental proportion if the US government and Corporate America did not want them here. If the US really want they can seal the southern border in matter of days and put whole National Guards patrol it.