He prides himself on being a fluent Spanish speaker (the first American president to be such), some members of his family have married into the Hispanic community (where it is more likely to be a political negative for a politician to speak against illegal immigration), and he's trying to win the Hispanic vote for the Republican Party. All these factors let me have a pretty good idea as to why he chooses this insanity, and I don't see that he's ever going to change on this issue.yep, it turns out that Jeb's wife is from and his father-in-law still lives in Guanajuato, which coincidentally is Senor Vicente's home state. If there is to be a continuance of the Bush dynasty on to Jeb and later to Jorge P., then you can bet that pandering to Hispanics will be a big factor in their strategy. And GW is not going to spoil it by getting tough on Mexicans.
Those who think Bush is doing this in order to get Hispanic votes for the Republican Party are sorely mistaken. Most Hispanics prefer tighter enforcement of immigration laws. Certainly beefing up the Border Patrol and requiring illegal immigrants to return to their countries of origin before participating in a guest worker program are not things that would be the least bit offensive to any voting Hispanic citizen.
Bush is doing this because this is his ideology, not because of political calculations.