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They are bought off, as a family, at some level, by Narcotrafico Drug Family/Cartel money in and from Mexico. It necessarily must be that. It is the only logical conclusion one can come to.

Indeed, GWB's loyalties could not have been to conservatism, because if his amnesty had succeeded, the leftists inevitably would have gained firm control of everything.

I was also thinking that GWB must have made some kind of deal. My guess was that he promised amnesty in exchange for oil. But maybe it's not that simple.

Regarding George W. Bush and Amnesty--which he pushed from the very early days of his Administration in 2001, it will come out 10, 20 years from now, Good Lord-willing.

Just what WAS "the fix", what WAS the "mordida", the bribe or the arrangement that made W so stubborn to sell out out US sovereignty along our Souther Border in that brash, unyielding way? I myself still believe it must have been some promise to Mexican drug cartel money in the future, through many layers of intermediaries, or that they had something on either hi or his daughters that they threatened to make public to embarrass him. So he did their bidding. Unceasingly. In the face of all national polls and his own internal Republican party rank and file. Hopefully a patriot who worked in the W White House will eventually come out and tell the truth. Hopefully in my lifetime as it is a big mystery as to *Why*

I think it was philisophical with Bush. He truly believes that hispanics, on the whole, are in some ways better than white Americans. He wanted to make a "new America" - one where spanish was heard on every street.

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