W had an Amnesty Summit with Vicente Fox on 9/5/2001 and wanted to give him a gift.
I remember this.
9/11 put this on hold for a bit, but Bush came round again as soon as he could.......2007
I will never forget how betrayed I felt!
W said during his 2000 campaign that his top foreign policy goal would be to improve relations with Mexico. He just neglected to provide many details before election day. I thought it sounded odd during the campaign, but he only really started pushing his amnesty programs after he won reelection in 2004.
I think he was told that his plans would be DOA in the House all during his first term. Then he made the two big pushes in 2006 and 2007. After those failed, and then the Republicans lost the House, at a press conference after the elections W was positively giddy at the prospect of working with Nancy Pelosi to finally get amnesty passed.
"See you at the bill signing."