That's very true and it's one of the only reasons the Bush policy on Mexico makes any sense to me. Fidel is still hard at work trying (and succeeding in some instances, like Venezuela and possibly Brazil) to export Communist revolution to South and Central America. Letting Mexico fall into full-bore Marxism would be a disaster for the U.S. I think Bush feels that propping up Vicente Fox with his policy on illegals helps keep a friendly government going in Mexico and helps him with his rich American contributors. His own family links to Mexico also play a role.
I agree and disagree with Ron H.'s #17. Yes, Bush should by all means level with the American people if that's what he's really thinking. But I believe the political future of Mexico is and should be very much a U.S. concern. Mexico is a wonderful country with wonderful people. It is rich with natural resources, especially oil, and is strategically located vis a vis the U.S. What's needed is some "consciousness-raising" about these issues and how they figure into the war on terror, the future political/economic stability of the Americas given our estrangement from traditional European allies and growing challenges in the Pacific.
The illegals need to be shipped back to wherever they came and require then to enter our nation as law abiding immigrants and work towards citizenship and assimilation and learn to speak the predominant language of this land. Illegal Mexican immigrants have amply demonstrated for years that they don't want to abide by our laws nor do they want to follow existing laws that you and I as American citizens must and do abide by and a great many of them have refused to even try to assimilate.
Rewarding belligerent and arrogant lawbreakers only breeds contempt for our nations rule of law and our way of operating this nation. Rewarding criminal aliens is not the answer and I pledge to actively oppose ANY one seeking any public office or seeking to get re-elected to one if they are trying legalize these many millions of tax-payer law breakers.
I happen to believe personally that if Bush is successful in pushing thru his blanket amnesty plan (in this term or in a next one if he is re-elected) that in a few short years one can look back and point to it as being the one single significant action that leads us to losing our nations sovereignty and end up borderless with its citizens losing their unique American identity. Can everyone say 'Hello Big Brother and Globalism'.