I don't understand how the president can talk up this ("non-amnesty") amnesty plan and then segue into the subject of national security, as he did in this speech.(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050803.html) How can he talk about national security without talking about a wall at our southern border? How can his administration cut back the allotment of 2,000 new BP agents per year to a mere 150? It's just the worst kind of doublespeak.
The administration has tried different ways to spin this "guest worker" vs. border security vs. sovereignty several different ways, each presentation more awkward sounding than the last.
I think each time he mentions it is a trial balloon to see what the reaction is. I feel strongly that Congress will do nothing on immigration/illegals/the border this year or even next; they'll just wait and wait, talk about it from time to time, and let it get worse.
I understand our need to be friends with our neighbors, because of the threats of China and islamic terrorism, but we are only friends to Mexico and they are not friends to us. I wonder if Vicente Fox is secretly threatening the U.S., holding a potential alliance with China over our heads...?
I still think Presidente Fox has 35 year-old photos of a drunken GWB doing the Tijuana donkey act...
That's the only explanation that makes (political) sense. The agri/construction/hospitality lobbies can't have that much pull on him.