Joe Guzzardi’s valuable column last night, apart from drawing attention to an extraordinary concession by professionals on the other side

“Restrictionists [that’s us!] are flooding Congressional phone lines and email inboxes with angry demands that their Senators and Representatives vote against any legislation that provides a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Their calls for an enforcement-only immigration policy are louder and more aggressive than ever and there are 400 of them for every 1 call from us.”

usefully cites an important article by Carolyn Lochhead of the San Francisco Chronicle [House GOP doing it their own way on immigration Wednesday June 21 2006]

This article is well worth reading:

Republican leaders are betting that campaigning against illegal immigration will help them retain their precarious House majority…Weeks of White House barnstorming seem to be making no headway against what Republican senators and House members heard in their districts after the Senate passed its sweeping immigration overhaul.
Some senators who backed the measure, denounced as amnesty by opponents, returned from a Memorial Day recess telling their colleagues they had made a political blunder… (VDARE.com emphasis)
Vulnerable House Republicans have reportedly told party leaders they are content to run on the border-crackdown measure that passed the House last December, despite a provision that makes it a felony to live in the country illegally. That provision ignited mass protests last spring and provided momentum for Senate passage of its bill.

Euphoria at this point on this issue is unwise. The forces wishing to abolish America are extremely determined, and they will be back. But if the hacks in Washington comprehend that associating with this cause could be dangerous, the task confronting the other side will be much more difficult