Agreed.
I think GWB was playing with the politics south of the border. Now that the "conservative" fellow seems to have been elected, he now believes it is a better time to negotiate with the House and Tacredo types.
Until then, in order to keep the lefty out, he had to stick to his open borders personal preference in order to avoid rallying the lefty's base.
It has always been a non sequitor to say that border security must be linked to a guest worker/amensty plan.
Agreed. The Senate Dems/RINOs are making that linkage to hold border enforcement hostage to their amnesty and guest worker plan. There must be sequencing to shut off the supply first. I don't see any great sense of urgency of dealing with those who are already here. Before we can make good public policy, we need to get a handle on the size and scope of the problem. We don't even have a good idea of how many illegals are in the country with the numbers flucuating from 9 to 20 million.