If the administration fully understands the politics of this, how can they believe that they can get away with repeatedly giving us the line about the illegitimate family values that don't stop at the Rio Grande? This is done in the place where a rational argument should be. Why don't they say something like: it is good to have ambitious people for jobs which otherwise would get casual laborers, and almost no one else? Because it would be then too easy to say that what they propose implies that we have far too few casual laborers? Least likely of all perhaps, would be for the administration to say its because we're afraid to offend the Mexicans, by implicitly telling them that their people are undesirable aliens. There is no way to avoid that, though, short of giving all of them instant US citizenship. Officials don't seem to have understood this point.