Agreed. The Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot with this issue. Why? All I can think of is that with chavez being flakey they are concerned a foreign source of oil. No, not into GW or Dick Cheney's pocket but because the world's economy runs on it and if Venezuala cut off our supply, it would hurt. Don't agree with it but that's all that I can think of. We bailed mexico out in the 80's to the tune of 40-50 billion dollars and they show no respect for us.
Hey, Vincente howzabout payin' that money back in oil startin' now.
I sorely wish this would become more of the focus of these threads. On one hand we have the ant-illegals, which, while they are correct in principle, are way off base in terms of the current reality. On the other hand, we have people willing cheering on illegal immigration, who for no other reason probably hate the US and everything it stands for and would love to hasten its demise.
The bottom line regarding illegal immigration is no different of how we financed and supported various regimes during the Cold War - the bigger picture was to defeat the USSR. Likewise, the bet here is that we can withstand changing demographics in order to focus on the WOT and not allow it to open a 2nd front in Latin America.