Here’s Kay Bailey Hutchison talking about her touchback proposal:

“I do think we need a guest worker program and we need to deal with the 12 million people who are here. I think that is a responsible approach.
“But we don’t need to discriminate against the people who have waited in line legally to come into our country. We need to have a fair process. So, my amendment would say that everyone who is here illegally would have one year to sign up and say they are here illegally, then they would have two years to go back-every adult who is here illegally would have to go back and apply from outside the country to come in legally.”

Here’s our “Touchback Fraud” editorial from earlier in the week.