Bush clearly has no intention of laying out anything coherent on immigration policy before the next election. It will be zig and zag, ending up with next to nothing. The more interesting question is what Bush might do in his second term. Will this issue interest him enough to take some risk to actually deal with the issue in an more coherent and thoughtful way, which while controversial, will at least represent a point of departure for debate? I suspect the answer is more likely than not, no. Nature will take its course. It may be, that in a decade, Europe and America will be competing for Latino immigrants. Stranger things have happened. As it is, a rather significant shift between the two continents in immigration patterns is emerging.
