This is going to take time and alot of dough. We can't spend the dough unless we run a temporary deficit spending spree. This needs to be supported as well unless we want gridlock and no progress on the most important issues of our time.
The food stamp for immigrants proposal is very recent, and came spontaneously from the White House... there has been no groundswell for that.
And there have been several other balloons floated recently to try and get negotiations with Vicente Fox "back on track."
The track they were on was Amnesty by another name.