[Shermy]

I wonder if the Bush/Rove crowd really believes that many of the guest workers will go home?

You assume either party wants them to leave. Both are in league with the immigration/wage depression industries - the demos place a little more favor with the "ethnic" front groups that are subsidized or coopted by the immigration industry.

[Aetius]

I do wonder about this. It seems as though many in the GOP, along with the WSJ/Barone/Barnes/Cato types really believe the unjustified hype about Bush delivering the Hispanic vote to the GOP. They also seem to genuniely believe the drivel about Hispanics being natural conservatives, and that the GOP need only be nice to them to garner their support.

But of course most of the evidence proves both of these ideas to be false. So I wonder if such intelligent people really believe the garbage they spout. They must know the truth, right?

So that's why part of me suspects that Rove secretly does want the guests to go home because he is smart enough to realize the electoral consequences of importing millions of likely Democrats.

On the other hand, part of me agrees with you that the desire for an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor comes before all else.