The committee chairmen can bottle up any attempts at pro-amnesty legislation, but they can’t require the full House to pass pro-enforcement legislation. Hopefully the new House make-up will enable it to pass a few new pro-enforcement measures, though they might not make it through the Senate for the next two years. But all those Dim senators up in 2012 need an opportunity take a stand on pro-enforcement bills.
Republicans need to turn this thing around and become reasonably pro-active over the next couple of years, and the House will have to set that in motion.
I still have no clue what you are trying to say. Lamar Smith is the author of the majority of immigration-law enforcement legislation over the past 16 years and has been very successful in getting it enacted. He is a skilled legislator. There are 21 Senate Democrats up for re-election in 2012, a fact that will tend to concentrate their minds, I think, on that side of the Capitol.