Conservative favorite Mike Pence is offering a "no-amnesty" alternative to President Bush’s guest-worker program.

The way the Time story makes it sound, the main difference would simply be that illegal immigrants would have to take a sort of round trip back to Mexico and then back to the U.S.

"Now, some of you are thinking to yourselves that 12 million people
aren’t going to pack up and leave just to get a visa to come back
legally," Pence says. "But, I believe most will."

Believing it, though, doesn’t make it so.

And just what does the round-trip bus ride accomplish, other than boosting Greyhound’s revenues for a quarter?