If President Bush's recent speech on immigration enforcement meant that he now understands how dismayed conservatives are about the chaotic, lawless state of our immigration system, that is an encouraging sign.(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)

* If President Bush's recent speech on immigration enforcement meant that he now understands how dismayed conservatives are about the chaotic, lawless state of our immigration system, that is an encouraging sign. But the particulars of the speech give conservatives little to be happy about. Bush promised to end the practice of releasing detained non-Mexican illegals on their own recognizance--freeing them, in practice, to skip their deportation hearings and fade away into the countryside. But not releasing illegals is among the smallest measures that can be expected from the administration, and is nothing for the president to boast about. Meanwhile, Bush still declines to take steps that are within his power and would be far more effective in curbing illegal immigration: for instance, instructing the Social ...