He did that. And it cost the GOP control of Congress. It cost the nation trillions in aid to invaders. It cost us a generation of anchor babies that we will be paying for for decades.
What did we gain by it?
cheaper lettuce. /s
Immigration was an albatross hung around the GOP’s neck. The perfect wedge issue.
You forget that GWB was elected and served both his terms with exactly the same policy on immigration. It was the same he had as Governor of Texas. How did that cost the GOP control of the Congress?
That was our doing....we vote (or not as many claimed they would before 2006). How different would the last two years be if conservatives had rallied around the Republicans and let them continue control of the House and Senate?
Illegal immigration was never the biggest threat to our country, Democrats were.