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let's applaud the thinking that underpins the Bush plan

Let's not.

The idea is continue to supply cheap labor to business and people who need servants...and to hell with those who are hurt by the down side; those who have to pay for the schooling and health-care of the immigrants, those who have to tolerate their crime and uncivilized behavior on a daily basis.

Amen, Amen, and Amen! I'm with you both in your thinking. Fred Barnes needs to come visit me in Dallas; I'll show him plenty of uncivilized aliens who enrich us NOT! Last night, for the umpteenth time since 10 of them moved into one house, my Mexican neighbors held a party on the lawn--at nearly 11pm. I ask them to stop the noise, but they don't speak English--as most of them don't really care about assimilating anyway; they just care about making money and having babies and having someone else pick up their medical bills (at least it is so in my neighborhood). To make matters worse, on a daily basis I have to pick up their broken beer bottles (thrown in my flwer beds and often on the sidewalks--shattered) as well as the caps and cig. butts.
On Tuesday, a White House volunteer for the comments line revealed inadvertently that phone calls to the White House opposing GWB's plan are nearly unprecedented in number and in angry tone.
Best regards,
Penny

Postscript: In the last year, I have alerted the INS no fewer than five times about this situation, but I've yet to have a response.

(snip)The idea is continue to supply cheap labor to business (snip)

That's only half the problem, here we are all victims of the two party system.Big buisiness Republicans want cheap labor, liberal Democrats want cheap votes.Niether party has anything to gain by actually doing something about the problem even though most Americans want something done.