Dane, any immigration bill will have to be signed by Bush. At the end of the day, he is responsible for what will happen.
I am opposed to a guest worker program for damn good reason, given the European problems from their such programs. If we truly need more people here, bring them in as full-status immigrants. Otherwise, stuff it.
And you lost, you could have had something on the line of Kyl/Cornyn, but you threw that away for a nancy pelosi house.
Your mistake is assuming that it's possible to shut off the border. It's not.
Oh sure, it's *possible*, with some draconian measures. But with a republican congress all you got was a partial fence and more (corrupt) border agents. In what fantasy land do you think those draconian measures required to shut the border are ever going to happen?
That being the case, the best compromise is some kind of legal status for mexicans, so we can track them, send the bad ones home, and give the legal ones motivation to assimilate.
Your option is essentially "more of the same", and we see where that got us.