Yes, it will be enforced. Why will it be enforced *after* Bush's new immigration plan takes place, you ask, when the old laws weren't, however?
Glad you asked. The answer, of course, is that something in Bush's plan has *changed* the status quo.
Currently, our government doesn't "know" where all 8 million illegals live and work. All that it can currently do is to make random law enforcement raids to round up a few illegals here and there.
That makes for a big problem. Consider the effort that the NAZIs went to in order to round up 6 million Jews in Europe during WW2. That was a large project.
This one is even bigger. We've got 8 million undocumented illegals here.
What Bush's new plan does is to document them. By registering, they tell us where they live and who they work for.
And *registration* changes everything. It makes our problem much more manageable. Random raids and massive law enforcement resources become much less necessary. We no longer have to guess at where they are located. We no longer have to expend resources to just find them.
Bush's plan also requires that they all go home voluntarily after three years in order to apply for new extensions to work here. That form of voluntary self-deportation is precisely what Sabertooth is calling for in his editorial for this thread above, though he like you seems to be against Bush's plan that does that very thing.
So by *registering* and *self-deporting*, Bush's plan takes care of most of those 8 million. Those few illegals who choose to continue not playing by our rules will represent a much smaller logistical problem than our current 8 million illegals, too...thus giving us a fighting chance at being able to track them down with our limited resources.
Thus, I see these new rules being enforced. Enforcing these new rules is far more manageable than the old problem of attempting to use force and resources on all 8 million illegals.