If the Kyl/Cornyn bill doesn't allow the 'guests' to bring their families, then that is indeed a mark of superiority over the terrible McCain/Kennedy bill, but I have a hard time believing that such a provision will ever survive anything passed by the Senate (House is a different matter). I can just imagine the endless parroting of sob stories that will be used against it.
Read his soundbite again. He didn't say he was pulling for the Kyl bill. Read it again.
That's EXACTLY the case. In all likelyhood, the immigration bill that passes will be Cornyn-Kyl. McCain-Kennedy is to liberal for the house of representatives and Tancredo's bill is to conservative for the senate. Cornyn-Kyl is in the middle of those two.
The Kyl/Cornyn bill is a good step in the right direction, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. If we had true Republican leadership in the White House, the Congress, and the RNC on this issue - and not a bunch of spineless excuse-makers and PC fools - we'd get something even better than Kyl/Cornyn. Instead, we're going to likely end up with something far worse that doesn't come close to addressing the problem but will be easy to claim victory on before the election. I like just about everything else President Bush is doing, but his leadership on the border security and immigration reform issues is so lacking it is frustrating.