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Remember Bush is a decent human being that really does, "feel their pain". He really thinks this is a good thing, "compassionate conservatism". Thats the problem. He doesn't care what polls say, because he thinks this is the right thing to do.

This is what I've always thought, but you put it better than I could. If I could believe that The President had nothing but sinister motives for doing this, then I could have hope that his mind could be changed, given enough opposition. But I don't think he will ever change his mind on this. I read once that, when the President was asked what he plans to do about people who disagree with him on this, he replied, "I will bring them around to my way of thinking." He's not going to budge on this. And if he can't bring us around to his way of thinking, I believe that he'll give up a second term rather than give in.

I think it's a combination of Bush's elitist upbringing, and his born again christianity. Obviously, if you watch him, he really does care about the oppressed, poor etc., I don't think there is any doubt about that. The problem is that he grew up among the elite of America, his family, Harvard, Yale etc., so the white guilt had to have rubbed off on him. When you combine that with his faith, ie helping the poor, downtrodden etc, you can see where helping the immigrants would be an issue for him, and one, unfortunatly, he probably won't change his mind on.