Morning noon or night

It doesn't matter when immigration gets done, but it better happen this year. Why is it that even the most positive vibes about the potential for passing immigration reform - such as those that have surfaced this week - leaving me wondering how real the chance for success is?

Here is a link to Dallas Morning News coverage of the visit of President Bush to Mexico.

An excerpt:

"My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Mr. Bush told Mexican President Felipe Calderón during opening ceremonies for their two-day visit in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.
"I remind my fellow citizens that family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River, that there are decent, hardworking, honorable citizens of Mexico who want to make a living for their families," Mr. Bush said.
In response, Mr. Calderón did not mince words. In polite but firm terms, he reminded Mr. Bush of the two countries' integrated economies and interdependent labor market, based on demand and supply of Mexican workers, and said, "Therefore, migration might not be stopped, and certainly not by decree."
And breaking his own vow to not make immigration the central theme of relations with the U.S. as Mr. Fox did during his six-year presidency, Mr. Calderón reminded Mr. Bush that as a native of the central state of Michoacan, he knows all too well the pain of families separated by immigration policies.


TK: As its leader well knows, Mexico must create more opportunities within Mexico for its own people. Yet both countries need U.S. immigration reform now.

Under the category of misery loves company, did you notice in TK Hot Picks the news from New Zealand about the shortage of harvest labor there?

A quote from the story:

"It's getting more and more difficult every year and we're going to need to import labour to fill these positions, desperately."