George B. doesn't back off the agenda the trouble will be more immediate than we think.
Consider this... Bush announces plan.
The flood has already started at the border, the illegals are pouring in EVEN FASTER.
Bush's scamnesty does not make it through Congress.
The single apparent benefit of the Damnesty (IDing the illegals) does not occur.
The number of illegals has doubled in about a year, the border is STILL open, the illegals are NOT documented in any way.
I find it difficult to believe that the advisers to the President of the United States have not thought this through and told him there is a STRONG possibility that the scamnesty will not pass.
Yet GWB is still, in the face of overwhelming opposition, pushing the amnesty.
So, what's up with that?
I agree with your analysis of the present situation. I also think that we do not have the political balls to deport any significant fraction of the illegals already here. We've tried (in California) voting to prohibit illegals from obtaining government benefits and that didn't work.
I don't see any good in what the President is doing.