A major goal of Mr. Bush's tenure was to make sweeping changes in the immigration system, including creating a process to give legal status to those who lead productive and law-abiding lives in spite of arriving here illegally.
Still, Mr. Bush has pledged to find common ground with Democrats, notably on a new minimum wage, proposed changes in the immigration law and the reauthorization of his main education initiative, No Child Left Behind.
Border officials worry there may not be much more they can do with enforcement alone to further reduce illegal crossings and sharpen the focus of their operations on criminal threats, without other changes in the immigration equation.
Four Turkish migrant groups boycotted it to show, as Memet Kilic of the German Foreigners' Council puts it, that "migrants are not masochists".The boycotters are incensed by changes in the immigration law that will make it harder for foreigners, especially Turks, to come to Germany.
Institutionally, this would doubtless lead to substantial changes in the immigration and refugee policies of most Western democracies.
"The illegality arose because of changes in the Immigration Act wording and some confusion about which category Dotcom was in thereafter".
