Back In Business

Of course the trouble with blogging is that if you don't keep it up, you disappear off the face of the ether. Today I am re-enthused by finding numerous other sites authored by passionate moderates, while trying to re-locate my way into this one.
The impetus for my return is my infuriation regarding the mixing of the terms illegal immigration and immigration, in a debate which is likely to result in hugely increasing the bureaucracy of our government, while making it much less able to deal with any aspect of illegal immigration.
Can someone explain to me how you are going to determine how long someone has been in the country, when there are no records of their entry, when there are no records of their employ, when they clearly have every motive to lie and maintain that they have been here 5 years (if that becomes the gold standard)? Are we now supposed to take the INS, the Border Patrol, which is already stretched so thin that it is essentially nothing, so that 10,000 "migrants," knowing that amnesty is in the offing, are crossing the border every day, and have them conduct interviews with the illegal aliens, the ones they cannot even find to stop them from crossing the border?
The same overworked INS agents are supposed to sit down and chat with the undocumented workers whom we supposedly cannot find, and have been told by both incumbent parties that there is no possible way to get them to leave the country, to find out if they have been here between 2 and 5 years, so that all those who have been here less than 5 will somehow be forced to return to their country of origin (which is really unfair if you are from China, or Nigeria, or Chile, or any country other than Mexico or Canada).
And somehow we are going to gather the fortitude to confront all those who have been here less than 2 years, and get them to leave for good - even though that number is considerably over a million, and we've already been told that it is impossible to even consider shipping out 10 million - so how, after the winnowing, are we going to carry that out ?
Until that explanation is forthcoming, there is absolutely no purpose in my consideration of any of the other terms of the bill under consideration in the Senate, and the horrifying sight of Senators I have previously admired (Barack Obama for one) and detested (Ted Kennedy) standing up and proclaiming that this bill, even were it to pass exactly as it is, without any further honing, would be a great thing, is a sight that will haunt me for years.