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Yup, and what happens when Dan Rather leads off every single newscast, night after night after night, with crying Mexican women and children being hauled out of the country away from the lives they've built in America.

That's crap. Quit being an enabler of cowardice and appeasement.
The Left got all the help it could from Bush, Kemp, and Bennett on #187, and we still won.
You're like one of Jushua's spies, afraid that he's a grasshopper.

I'll tell you what: Political support for the crackdown goes *poof*.

Look: we won.
In your analysis, demonstrated victories are defeats.
Quit your hand-wringing and enabling and understand that Karl Rove and President Bush are flat-out political fools to pursue any sort of legalization for Illegals.
Why do you suppose the President always so carefully dissembles about is true intentions in this regard?
If appeasement to Illegals was popular, why wouldn't President Bush be a more open and enthusiastic champion of this evisceration of our national soverignty and the rule of law?

I agree with your implication that there is substantial grassroots opposition to illegal immigration. It is, however, highly uncertain whether such opposition would be sustained throughout the duration a crackdown campaign lasting months or even years.

When one considers the political risk associated with a crackdown on illegals, and couples that with the fact that many elected officials who would have to support such a measure don't personally have to deal with the negative effects of illegal immigration, a crackdown is a non-starter.