The title is neither misleading nor invective-laden. However, PDQ, somehow we'll survive without your wonderful contributions. Sorry you're so sensitive. But at least you have drawn the proper conclusion--if you can't stand the heat....

At any rate, I wanted to point out earlier, that the Bush regime is at least politically savvy enough on this issue to realize the parallel between the the current situation and Pete Wilson in California in the 1990's. Wilson took a stand against Hispanics. Ever since then, California has been progressively more Democratic Now it is a quite reliable Democratic state in national elections.   As the Hispanic population has grown, California's tendency to vote Democratic has also grown.

The Bush regime realizes that the same thing could happen on a national scale. The fastest growing ethnic group in the US is the Hispanics. And I'm talking about a huge number of LEGAL immigrants--who can, and more and more, do, vote.   I have read that Bush took about 45% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. Reason: many new citizens tend to be conservative on such issues as patriotism. And Bush's anti-abortion stance resonated with many conservative Catholic voters--which again included many Hispanics.

But a perceived anti-Hispanic bias is likely to trump this.

The politicians taking the strongest anti-immigrant stance are, by a wide margin, Republican.

Either Bush will manage to get a bill through Congress setting out a path for citizenship for illegal immigrants--in which case he will alienate the Tancredos and Sensenbrenners, etc. And their many supporters.

Or, most likely, there will be no bill--and the Hispanics will see who is leading the charge against them. And not forget.