Your fine posts are degraded by these types of comments. Bush opened up the borders for one reason: to pump the economy. He needed a good economy in order to isolate MSM criticism on the WoT. (Imagine if we had a poor economy while attempting to conduct the war.)
Where I disagree with Bush is in his choice of tactics. Rather than flood the country with 12-20m illiterate peasants, he should have opened up the legal immigration process to highly qualified Indians, Chinese, Africans, E Euros, etc.
The problem is that the current economy is being financed similar to credit card debt ie the bill has yet to come due. While we have good GDP growth & low unemployment, the long-term costs (crime, degraded neighborhoods, school crowding, welfare, etc) will be borne by future generations.
What many fail to recognize is that we already have a model of what the US will look like with unfettered illegal immigration: California. That means Dem politics, high crime neighborhoods, rich/isolated gated communities, insolvent gov't finances, terrible school test scores, et al.
Bush signed the Partnership for Prosperity in September 2001, before the WoT began.
Are you saying that he knew the WoT was coming?