An attempt to gain the Chicano/Hispanic vote? Republicans seem to make some pretty big blunders regularly. Sort of like when they voted not to put Clinton on trial. Or how they fight to give China MFN status. It just doesn't pass the smell test. The Republican party is merely the lesser of evils, but not by very much, depending on how you look at it. Point is: we're not nearly getting what we want, and no matter what we do, the sweet liberty of yesteryear is increasingly under attack, either by the Dems natural proclivities, or now the terrorist threats.
I don't even think it's that. I think Bush is catering to Fox for other reasons and it bothers me what those other reasons might be. Some Mexican told me today that the previous president of Mexico --Salinas de Gotari (the one whose brother in law was murdered by his brother in some kind of drug lord thing) is back in Mexico and that he had helped put Fox into office. Fox also denied asylum to those 21 Cubans recently ---and even had Castro send in his police force after them, so I don't think Fox is on the side of good or freedom at all.