[StoneColdGOP]

And you know, these things are all great accomplishments that conservatives can take great pride in.

I do.

But, there are also great disappoinments. The most glaring is the amnesty plan. The magnitude of the illegal alien invasion issue is so great, especially in California, that all the good Bush can do on other issues can be negated by his invitation to throngs of economic refugees in Mexico to come here.

What good is giving these "workers" legal status here when they then fall under the same minimum wage laws that employers will STILL try to get around by hiring the new wave of illegals?

What good is beefing up border security when Immigration agents and law enforcement have no power and are in fact barred from arresting illegals and deporting them?

The issue is rightly triggering criticism of Bush. Why he's doing this, I don't know. If he's taking a page from the Gray Davis Playbook of Pandering, this will blow up in his face and he'll have himself and Rove to blame.

[maica]

What good is beefing up border security when Immigration agents and law enforcement have no power and are in fact barred from arresting illegals and deporting them?

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President Bush has just opened the door (pardon the pun) to discussion of immigration policy. We have to have a workable policy before we can have a workable enforcement.

During his first campaign for president, he said he wanted to reform Soash' Security. Critics said he shouldn't mention the "third rail" in politics, yet he did, he got elected, and 3 years later hardly anything has been reformed. It is a slooow process. So will immigration policy be a slow process. At least he is willing to look at the problem.

[Wolfstar]

The most glaring is the amnesty plan.

It's already DOA in the House.