I do not consider 400,000/year unaccounted for illegal immigrants across our southern border (20 - 25% non-Mexican) to be a domestic security "accomplishment", post 9/11.
The troops needed to be on the border on 9/12 and still there now. The rest is pretense.
As far as who wins in November or 2008, I do not consider either possibility as having any great importance if the current immigration "reform" proposals go through.
Again, you need to weigh the actual proposed bill and its amendments against the rhetoric that is selling it. They are as dis-similar as any two objects can be.
Lastly, you cannot tell potential immigrants that you are willing to distort your laws in any manner necessary, to accomodate an existing, massive illegal situation without all potential immigrants concluding that you will never have the will to enforce the enforcement measures in the "reforms" either. You're failure to enforce the existing law first, now and your fight to find ways to excuse that lack of enforcement will lead them to conclude they have no reason or need to wait for any legal process.
They will form a new mob in 5, and 10 and 15 and 20 years and again - with 20, 30, 40, 50 million dare you to enforce your new laws.
You have established we are cowards to enforce our own laws.
They will quit waiting.
