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I would submit that Conservative (not particularly Republicans since clearly those terms are not synonymous) could use this issue to our advantage in November. Some polls are now indicating a third party would tie the Democrats and beat the Republicans in '08 if they ran on this issue. I don't think it will work out that way but it does indicate we could significantly influence the '06 elections if we get into the Demo/Rep primaries with candidates running on this issue alone. I think the RINOs are exposed and Blue-dog Democrats like Zell Miller could raise havoc in the primaries...but we should get cracking.

Something like that is already going on in the primaries. The 'Rats are generally keeping their mouths shut, while the Reps are falling all over themselves to see who can be more "right" on immigration.

Anyone either running, or even tangentially involved in any of these campaigns can tell you that it is political suicide to endorse anything that could be portrayed as "amnesty" until real, solid, visibly working enforcement measures have been enacted. The reason is that _no one_ believes that, if proffered together, enforcement will actually follow amnesty. It's not that anyone actually thinks that 11 million people will ever go away (or even really wants this), it's that too many people no longer have any faith in their government to follow through.