President Bush tried to claim the much prized Middle Ground in his speech on Immigration Monday night by largely supporting the Senate’s version of Immigration Reform.  Both parties are trying to seem like they care both about security and providing an amnesty to untold millions of illegal immigrants that isn’t an amnestly because… well because the public wouldn’t support that so they are just changing the definition in true Clintonesque fashion.  But they both know very clearly that the public wants control of the border so they claim to seriously support immigration enforcement.

Back in 1986 Congress said exactly the same thing and enacted a law that was "Comprehensive" but in fact never voted for the funds to enforce the law while they did vote for the funds to process the millions of new citizens granted amnesty.  They haven’t voted for effective enforcement of the border at any point before or since that day, which is why we have many millions of illegal immigrants in the country today.  Leaders of both parties have been promising to enforce the immigrations laws for decades and are proven liars as a matter of simple fact.  Its not debatable given recent multi-million attendance rallies by illegal aliens inside our borders.  But they want us to believe them now, and today they were given a chance to show that they really can be trusted this time and that they mean it by voting for an amendment to the Immigration bill that would require security first (emphasis added):

Senators voted 55 to 40 to kill an amendment, offered by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), that would have prohibited the implementation of any guest-worker program for illegal immigrants until the secretary of homeland security certified that the bill’s border security provisions were fully funded and operational.

Supporters called it a "common-sense approach" that would have avoided a repeat of a 1986 amnesty program that legalized millions of undocumented workers but failed to secure the border. But opponents said it would effectively kill the compromise by putting off the guest-worker programs for years.

You need to flip that statement over to understand what it means.  Saying that "opponents said it would effectively kill the compromise by putting off the guest-worker programs for years" is clarifying that it doesn’t matter that immigration enforcement will take years to implement, if it actually is ever fully funded and implemented.  The Senators are making clear that all they really care about is granting a mass amnesty.  Given the decades long history on the subject and their total opposition to making security the priority after all this time, it is only logical to understand that they really have no intention of funding the security and enforcement at all.  They could not allow the amnesty and guest worker programs to come only after security is in place because they know they have no intention of voting for the security funds and other required legislation.

The Senate has revealed their true priority with the vote on this amendment.  Amnesty and guest worker programs now, immigration law enforcement and security never.  We can only hope the House does not back down in its insistence on security first.