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President Bush returned to the Mexico border at Yuma, Arizona, Monday to reprise last year's role as buggy-riding border sheriff. And as with every piece of White House theater, this one has a very specific audience in mind: the anti-immigration right wing of the Republican Party. It is this deeply skeptical crowd Bush must win over if he is to get the last potential domestic policy achievement of his Presidency: "comprehensive immigration reform." And, with Congress' summer recess and the 2008 Presidential primaries approaching, time is running...
...Bush spent most of his time in Yuma talking about his achievements in combating illegal immigration: nearly doubling the number of border guards, funding hundreds of miles of border fence, a significant uptick in border arrests and so on. He also talked about progress in cracking down on illegal hiring of undocumented workers by restaurants, hotels, construction and food processing plants, among other employers. Burnishing his credentials as a law-and-order border guard is key to the effort...
...President's "comprehensive" reform includes more than border security, and that's where conservative skepticism comes in. His proposals, unveiled to Democrats for the first time two weeks ago, aim to create not just tougher border security and tighter domestic enforcement at work sites, but also a new guest worker program and a solution for the 11-12 million illegal immigrants in the country. Though these goals are associated with a softer line on immigration, under his new plan, Bush has played to the hard-line consensus among Republicans on these issues...
...Usually, the U.S. and Israel are synchronized in their dealings with the Palestinians. But tensions between the two allies emerged during Rice's visit last week. The U.S. is trying to build up Abbas's presidential guard, which is also deployed to halt smuggling along Gaza's Egyptian border and at the Karni crossing into Israel. The State Department is trying to persuade a U.S. Congressional delegation, now in Israel, to support the State Department's request for $59.4 million in non-lethal military aid for Abbas. In practice, Israel is opposing the funding because it thinks that some...
...peacekeeping force, but its bunkers remained elusive. They were hidden, their entrances well camouflaged, in the dense undergrowth of remote valleys often littered with unexploded Israeli ordnance. After several unsuccessful attempts to find one, last week I received map coordinates for two bunkers in a valley near the Christian border village of Alma Shaab. With the coordinates logged into a GPS device, Ghaith and I walked carefully along a track winding through blossom-scented orange orchards at the bottom of a steep-sided brush-covered valley. Snakes and lizards basking in the hot sun slithered from beneath our feet...