Bush probably will NOT do the right thing on immigration ever because most of the illegal immigration comes from Spanish-speaking countries. 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.
Exactly, and that's why any call to him to do something about the problem will fall on deaf ears.
Therefore our only recourse will be congress and state initiatives.
The Bush team will lose, and lose big, on this one.
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.