Wake up and smell the coffee.
Point 1: Bush drew widespread support from Hispanic
voters throughout TX, AZ, NM and esp FLA.
Point 2: The majority of the illegals you are
talking about are hispanic.
The point I was trying to make was that even if
the Bushies attempt to unilaterally resolve your issue,
if the Dems elect to paint it as a racist move,
you could potentally see alienation of a large segment
of folks who went republican. I really don't think it
is as easy as trying to erect a wall, electronic surv
or simply shooting to kill. The demoncraps live
for this kind of stuff.
MV
The Rats will paint it as racist no matter what he does.
Might as well do the right thing. And Hispanics are far more divided on this issue (lean our way, in fact, from what I've seen) than the liberals would have us believe.
But doing the right thing won't happen because the campaign donations to both parties roll in from businesses that depend on the illegal worker.
Only if you believe certain exit polls --- but if you believe exit polls you also have to believe that Kerry won the election.
For one --- when I voted, there was no place on the ballot to mark race or ethnicity. For another the exit polls that you're referring to aren't usually done in the barrios and colonias where the Mexican citizens live --- they're heavily slanted because the exit polls overly represent the suburbs --- and of course the English speaking voters.
IMHO the best way to defuse this issue is to begin a program to assimilate the six border states of Mexico as the next 6 members of the United States of America. Begun by Bush, it would guarantee Republican leadership there, would end the border crisis, releive Mexico of an obvious burden, and provide an American "frontier" for development.It is more constructive than sitting around waiting for a RINO to grab the issue and enforce immigration laws-a very dicey political move for Bush and the Republican Party, and does NOT serve the cause of individual freedom.