She's a team player!

From Condi Rice's testimony:

Rice said immigration reform would be an important issue for Bush, both for economic and security reasons. ''But if we are not asking our border guards and our border personnel to deal simultaneously with immigration that comes out of economic circumstances and dangerous border infringement that comes out of terrorism, and they have a more regularized way to deal with the former, we think that that will make it easier to deal with some of the terrorism and concerns about bad people coming to do bad things,'' she said.

Note for those just joining us: "regularization" is the euphemism that the Mexican government and the Bush administration use to denote "a massive illegal alien amnesty." For instance, here's team player Colin Powell using that word. And, here's America's favorite amigo Vicente Fox from just four days before 9/11:

...What we want. We want some agreement on migration, taking into considerations two universes: One has to do with those Mexican workers that are here in the United States but are contributing to the U.S. economy, that are paying taxes, that are behaving; those right now are illegal. We want to regularize their situation so that they can be here without having to hide away, without having to have their rights violated, and that they would have a status of regularization that will permit them to have all the rights, and keep on working hard, and at the same time go back and forth to Mexico...

The intentionally misleading terminology our leaders and our "friends" use is described here:

...Amnesty supporters have been working overtime to avoid the "A" word. Unlike in Al Kahn's playful approach, the result has been euphemisms only a policy wonk could love: "regularization," "legalization," "normalization," "permanence," "earned adjustment," and (perhaps most ludicrous) "phased-in access to earned regularization." Focus groups conducted by the National Council of La Raza, a leading supporter of amnesty, found so much resistance that the organization advised Mexican president Vicente Fox never to utter the word.

Other amnesty supporters have gone farther, challenging the very concept of amnesty and seeking to legitimize illegal immigration. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.), for instance, rejects the concept altogether: "Amnesty - there's an implication that somehow you did something wrong and you need to be forgiven." Cecilia Munoz of the National Council of La Raza makes the same point in a more sophisticated fashion; the word "conveys a sense of forgiving someone for a crime," she says, when in fact, crossing the border illegally is a civil offense, not a criminal one. A quick look at Title 8, Section 1325 of the U.S. Code shows this to be false: Illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor on the first offense, and a felony afterward...