If Congress followed his plans word-for-word it would be a decent bill. Too bad he left out key components that would make it an actual "comprehensive" plan. Largely the "crack down on employers" component.
There is hope. If there is guest worker program then employer accountability would have to be a part of this.
There is nothing that Bush needs to "demand" from Congress and he has every law needed, now, to "crack down on employers" and every measure of that enforcement activity, which is his resonsibility and his alone, has been on a downward trend since he took office.
In a direct, defacto manner Bush has created the impulse towards amnesty by doing absoultely nothing for six years but fail to enforce the law, fail to defend the border and appease Vicente Fox. That is not a record on which one can find good intentions on the part of Bush on any immigration matter.
Unwillingness to absolutely enforce current law, together with unwillingness to recoup from that failure first will be seen, by millions overseas, as direct indication of lack of intent to enforce the law, reformed or otherwise, in the future.
The course set in the House - first do one thing right, establish the means to enforce the current law and control the border - then, in a couple years, if that is starting to work, go back to how much "compassion" we owe those already here illegally.
That sets the priorities in the right order, without executing any one-time massive deportation and sends the signal to future potential illegal immigrants that we are closing that option. When we know they are getting that signal, we can then address questions like higher legal immigration quotas and for what catgeories - not before; because lack of enforcement trumps all laws and all "reforms".