Some of us hit that point 3, 4 years ago. After Bush was re-elected the very first thing he did was go to Mexico and had a totalization agreement drawn up.
I remember that and also remember election night 2006 when Tony Snow came out and said the President was looking forward to working with the Dem leadership on Immigration.
Personally believe that some of our candidates that lost were tanked by his henchman who we are still paying his salary. Especially Graf and Hayworth. He shut off funding to Dr. Tom in 2004 when the candidate of choice did not win the primary and shut down fundraising in D.C.