On Subject of Immigration, Bush and Congress Once Again Not in Sync with American Public

From the wire service:

WASHINGTON - Americans are divided about whether illegal immigrants help or hurt the country, a poll finds. More than one-half of those questioned are open to allowing undocumented workers to obtain some temporary legal status so they can stay in the United States.

At the same time, people doubt that erecting a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border could help to fix such a complex and enduring problem, an AP-Ipsos poll found. Two-thirds do not think it would work.

"You can't go and round up 11 million people and ship them out of the country," said Robert Kelly. The Chicago lawyer is among the 56 percent of Americans who favor offering some kind of legal status. "It just isn't practical," he said.

It's really quite hard to tell which is more of a dipshit idea: making prisoners pick crops for huge agribusiness conglomerates or building a 700 mile fence (a reverse "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!")