Some legislators had also mentioned to us (oftentimes laughing) how they had "defanged" or "gutted" anti-immigration bills and measures, by neglecting to fund this program or tabling that provision, or deleting the other measure, etc. "Yes, we passed that law, but it can’t work because we also…" was a usual comment to assuage the Mexican delegations.
While I can recall many accolades for the Mexican immigrants and for Mexican-Americans (one white congressman even gave me a "high five" when recalling that Californian Hispanics were headed for majority status), I remember few instances when a legislator spoke well of his or her white constituents. One even called them "rednecks," and apologized to us on their behalf for their incorrect attitude on immigration. Most of them seemed to advocate changing the ethnic composition of the United States as an end in itself.
...One leading Republican senator over a period of months was advising us, through a mutual acquaintance, about which mechanisms to follow and which other legislators to lobby in order to ensure passage of the amnesty proposal. In the meantime, he would speak on television about the need to "militarize" the border. This senator was recently singled out by a taxpayer’s advocacy group as a leader in "pork"-related politics...As Arias-King points out, these attitudes are widespread in BOTH parties.
So they will promise us the moon regarding enforcement provisions because they know they will never have to deliver.
The article is called, "Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the People’s Will." It's a bit long, but a must read. There was also an FR thread about the article a couple weeks ago HERE. I'm suprised talk radio hasn't mentioned the article explicitly because it's written by a pro-American insider who knows the Machiavellism of our leaders first hand.
GWB and DHS got $1.2 billion for a border fence, of which less than 1/2 of 1 percent has been built. Just last week, Chertoff gave this explanation for the delay: "Call you Congressman." (Of course Congress has nothing to do with it, they'd already disbursed the funds to DHS).
In the interim (and before the 2006 election) GWB authorized 6,000 National Guardsmen to the border in rolling deployments of 3 weeks. According to recent reports, their presence has been dwindling due to deployements of those Guardsmen to Iraq.
In 2005 GWB requested and was provided funds to hire 2,000 new Border Patrol officers for 2006. In his 2006 budget, GWB's budget showed that 216 BP officers would be hired, not the 2,000 approved by Congress.