I truly mean it when I say the president is in a lose-lose situation with any immigration plan he proposes, not just the one he outlined last night. There is no chance Bush will please both sides of his party, and to make things actually worse, the democrats have no comment on the issue. The principle issue may be homeland security (which, for the most part, should be easily reconciled and fixed), but unfortunately, the president also has to deal with long-standing prejudice (not only within his own party) and the troubling fact that many American's hold the unAmerican belief that the U.S. should close its southern border.

The most-fierce proponents of closing the U.S.-Mexico border and advocates for the construction of a large wall sealing the border are using the timely issue of homeland security to defend their obviously deep-rooted anti-immigrant (and, at the same time, anti-American) beliefs. These people, so very irrational and non-representative of the American population as a whole, deserve no seat at the debate table. It is truly damaging and mind-boggling that we are handing this faction the platform for which they may successfully sway public policy.

The bind that ties the GOP together...

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