[lentulusgracchus]

You're right, the President has instructed ICE to enforce the law.

The political objective, however, is to raise a cry of pain in the business community for alley-in-free amnesty.

[raybbr]

You're right, the President has instructed ICE to enforce the law.

Six year too late. The damage has been done. There is now marching in the streets. Anchor babies are everywhere.

I can only come to the conclusion that Bush's objective of a "new America" is well on its way and these raids will not hamper the goal.

THE "NEW AMERICAN"..........<

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

[Hardastarboard]

The political objective, however, is to raise a cry of pain in the business community for alley-in-free amnesty.

That makes no sense. The business community is already one of the biggest supporters of immigration to keep their labor costs down. Who do you think was doing all the howling in Arizona when they recently passed their very effective law against businesses hiring illegals?

[arthurus]

Qwitcherbellyakin. Any actual enforcement of laws will make the employers and businesses squawk. Eisenhower did it this way back in his day though the problem was not so massive as it is now, and it worked. Some selective high profile raids that continued, were not just a one-time thing to impress the citizens and the problem dissipated. Most of the wetbacks went home and took their babies with them.