It really doesn't matter either way because "the governing class" - of both parties - doesn't give a tin damn what the people want. Bush won a second term and now it's "Screw You" as far as the Republicans are concerned. A bitter lesson for me, but they'll never get my vote again.
The desire of the overwhelming majority of American citizens to have our borders controlled and to prevent businesses from hiring illegal aliens has been autocratically overruled by our elected officials for decades despite the fact that they have passed laws that make these activities illegal. They (Congress) have played a game with every President in which they passed laws against illegal immigration (to give themselves cover with the electorate) but then they don't demand that the President enforce them. Since both parties are agreed on not giving the American people what they so desperately want on this issue, no elected official has had to pay a price for this and even if "the people" were to kick one out of office, his replacement would be equally pro-illegal. They really do not care what "we the people" want on this issue and they do not care that they are driving a stake into the central accomplishment of the American revolution -- self-government. They, and their internationally minded financial masters, have succeeded in effecting a coup from above to overturn the results of American revolution and impose arbitrary rule by an oligarchic elite. The question is whether "we the people" will let this stand or whether we will take up Benjamin Franklin's challenge to us to preserve our republic and our right to self-government.
George Bush took an oath of office to faithfully execute the laws of the land. He is the chief EXECUTIVE. It is his constitutional duty to enforce the laws and he has no right to pick and choose those laws he wants to enforce and to ignore those he doesn't personally like. This is what our self-governing system is all about. It is the people's will as expressed through our representatives in legislation that is supposed to decide these matters.
By his ongoing failure to enforce the democratically enacted laws against illegal immigration and his constant attempt to force amnesty programs on an unwilling citizenry President Bush has shown his contempt both for democratic self-governance and the American people. His arrogant refusal to perform his constitutional duty should be met with the one remedy provided by the Constitution to protect the people against the usurpation of their legislative authority -- impeachment. It is now well past time for Congress to assert the rights of the American people to self-government.