WashTimes:

President Bush last night called for reforming U.S. immigration laws, saying that the current system is "outdated" and that lawmakers need to create a new policy that accepts "hard-working people" while protecting America's borders...

But the president has a tough sell with many members of his own party, who said that what he is proposing is an amnesty.
"He is the only person around that I know of that does not think what he is talking about is amnesty. He is creating a new Webster's dictionary definition," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus...

Americans support some sort of vehicle to accept illegal aliens now in the country, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found. More than 60 percent of those surveyed think undocumented, noncitizens already living and working in the United States should be allowed to keep their jobs and encouraged to apply for legal status. Thirty-six percent favored automatic deportation for those people found working illegally in the United States...

I doubt whether the ABC poll asked whether they would support such a plan given that it would almost certainly increase the number of illegal aliens coming here to take part in that and future plans.