As head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Dole is struggling to find out what Americans think about immigration; tell her. Of course, the Republican establishment already knows what the public wants, which is the reason for the kind of dissimulation Sen. Frist engaged in yesterday in laying out plans for immigration legislation early next year:

“We’re going to start with border security, but in the same time we’re on the floor we’re going to build on that and extend that to the enforcement issues and the issues of more comprehensive reform, and give guest-worker [plans] full consideration.”

In other words, instead of fixing the immigration system first, and only then looking at the issue of amnesty and “temporary” foreign workers, the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body will talk about enforcement first, but then will turn around and add an amnesty to the legislation.