And what praytell would happen if they simply decided that the trip back and forth over the border simply became "too tedious" for them and they simply decided to buy a home here?
At last check, for all intents and purposes we haven't been kicking anyone out in any large quantities either. Not to mention, lawyers will be all over this to the extent that they may as well be citizens. There'd be all kinds of pushes for rights that they'd have as citizens.
I'm not sure that W sees the current state of the borders as any threat to the US in any one of several ways.
This just in: Lenders have no aversion to financing illegals.
Further, could it be that GWB is trying to "to grease the skids" for kid brother Jeb in 2008? Jeb, with a Mexican wife, may well try to make the Mexican vote key to a presidential run. But allowing another flood tide of Mexicans could backfire if they break for the Demonrats, a distinct possibility.