>Hmmm...perhaps this was brought up during Bush's visit with President Fox in Cancun? Whom I imagine discussed with him certain unresolved issues?

And then the reason he visited was exactly to discuss these issues, i.e. a part of the current (distraction) campaign. Don't put the cart before the horse. And how do you imagine an issue being "brought up during visit" - don't they first make a list of what they'll talk about? I somehow can't imagine mr. Bush going ad lib, and jumping on an issue en passant. He pretty much always goes by the script, from what I saw.

>Meanwhile, this is interesting reading: Giuliani Supports Guest-Worker Program on National Security Grounds. It could be argued that better immigration policies are just one more action in the war against terror.

I'd surely like to see all these people becoming either legal or shipped back - but make the whole process easier. And it's not only a terrorism or crime issue. Having so many people without proper papers is trouble for anything involving them - from drivers' licenses to taxes to them not being able to help the police even if they want to. You have 11 million people who can't behave normally, because their status is not normal. They'll try to stay below any radar, which then skews any statistics, demographics and what not. In a world where 1% of anything may mean the difference between profit or not, you get about 0.3% of general population (and what percentage is that of working population?) that is off the charts.

While illegals may be good for the businesses that hire them, they actually cost everybody else. Since it's impossible to make them vanish from the system, then it's better to have them regularly within it.