And the suporters call this comprehensive immigration reform/border control?

The Senate's immigration bill will only reduce illegal immigration by about 25 percent a year, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report, Stephen Dinan will report Tuesday in The Washington Times. The bill's new guest-worker program could lead to at least 500,000 more illegal immigrants within a decade, said the report from the CBO, which said in its official cost estimate that it assumes some future temporary workers will overstay their time in the plan, adding up to a half-million by 2017 and 1 million by 2027. "We anticipate that many of those would remain in the United States illegally after their visas expire," CBO said of the guest-worker program, which would allow 200,000 new workers a year to rotate into the country.

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"CBO estimates that those measures would reduce the net annual flow of unauthorized immigrants by one-quarter," the report said. Still, with estimates of hundreds of thousands to one million illegal aliens per year, CBO is assuming a large problem will remain.

So if I get this straight, there will be 50,000 "overstayers" each year, plus 500,000 to 750,000 border jumpers.

In other words, we really won't see that much of a reduction in illegal immigration -- and we will need another amnesty 10, 20, or 30 years down the road, after the population of immigration criminals has again reached critical mass (remember, we did an amnesty like this in 1986 under Reagan, and it has clearly failed) Maybe then it will require super-duper comprehensive legislation to solve the problem.

H/T Confederate Yankee, Captain's Quarters

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