I don't think Bush would have stopped then. They are irrelevant to the big picture.
I also don't think Bush cares, one-way or they other, if Asa had let them go on.
In the grand scheme of things, they had little or no effect.
The left wing media and pro illegal immigration crowd blew this whole thing way out of proportion, to make happen, exactly what happened; The raids/sweeps have stopped.
The raids/sweeps had very little effect on the Hispanic communities. The activists and the media hyped the stories. They achieved what they wanted to achieve.
I couldn't disagree more.
These sweeps were successful. They should have doubled in size and frequency.
They should be instituted statewide in California and the other 49 states, as well.
Interior sweeps serve to discourage additional illegal immigration. They will not work alone, but only as one of many actions taken in a multifaceted plan to end illegal immigration.
What kind of an administration allows a criminal, illegal alien, minority to force our Nation's law enforcement agencies to terminate an effective program to apprehend them, against the wishes of that Nation's legal citizen majority?
The Republicans caved to the demands of these illegal alien criminals as bad or worse than I would have expected the Democrats to do.