I’m hearing from a few friends in the immigration community that Congressional Democrats are looking at a push for amnesty. While you should probably take that for a grain of salt, it would seem to match-up with rhetoric from the administration and earlier reports that high-ranking Democrats sought an immigration bill by the end of this year.

Typically the argument has been that the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in this nation are doing the jobs Americans won’t do. Well, that argument doesn’t fly as well during a period approaching double-digit unemployment, when millions of Americans are looking for jobs to pay their bills. Americans simply aren’t going to buy that Joe Smith, unemployed and trying to pay his mortgage, wouldn’t work in a factory.

President Obama, when addressing the issue earlier this year, mentioned the taxes the the millions of illegal aliens fail to generate by being categorized as illegal. That seems to be the argument that proponents of amnesty will look towards this time: That, considering we’re in a recession and spending has gotten out of control, we need their tax dollars to help cover the nation’s tab. How to acquire those tax dollars? Why, legalize them all immediately, you see. It’s a matter of the nation’s economy and helping to fix the massive national debt Americans are concerned about, in other words.