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How does this differ from the Bush position?

What is the "Bush position," and link to a delineation of it.

On a major immigration issue, Bush said he was hopeful the United States and Mexico will reach an agreement by early September that would pave the way to legalize the status of up to 3 million Mexicans and ``serve as a precedent for other nationalities.

``I fully recognize, particularly in Miami and a lot of other places, there are workers here from other nationalities,'' said Bush. ``But to me, it makes sense to deal with the Mexican issue first, simply because the numbers are so overwhelming.''

Well Bushs's amnesty proposal was a wreck in August of 2001 because:

1: The Republican House Leadership (God Bless them!) was ready to rebel against Rove because they correctly viewed Amnesty, as ensuring the Demographic destruction of the GOP.

2: The Democrats had out-manuevered the GOP by proposing that ALL illegals be given amnesty, not merely the 3 million Mexicans Rove had originally hoped for.

Of course the White House quietly abandoned the plan after 911 (and they probably would have abandoned the proposal even if 911 had not happened, due to House leadership resistance).

I'm not sure what they're current plan is, although the fact that the White House cancelled the Cinco De Mayo festivities, is a pretty strong indicator that There (Hopefully) will not be an amnesty proposal any time soon.

What the House is trying to do now, is trying to put a "Poison Pill" inside any Amnesty agreement, which is what the Oil Privitization scheme is.

The House GOP knows Mexico will never accept American influence over their oil, so the GOP put this proposal in to make sure there aren't enough votes to pass it.

So instead of just not taking up the amnesty issue, the GOP can say "Well we had a deal to give amnesty but Mexico rejected it therefore we had to withdraw the proposal".