The lesson democrats taught Pete Wilson and the Republicans in CA is not lost on present day Republicans. So far, immigration is like weather: easy to talk about and very little to actually do.
When I read stuff about Bush woosing out on immigration, especially stuff written by liberals, I have one quesiton: Are you willing to do something that actually involves enforcing laws, limiting access to public $ and repatriaing illegals?
If not, then it is just more cheap posturing, a specialty for liberals but a problem for us all. The immigration debacle has been 40 years in the making and it is about as much as Bush's problem as Vietnam was 'Nixon's war'.
Ed