In the wake of the defeat of the Senate amnesty bill, CQ reports that the National Immigration Forum, the umbrella group for the open-borders lobby, is replacing its leadership. What’s most interesting is this comment from the outgoing executive director:

In the wake of the death of an immigration-policy rewrite in Congress for a second straight year, the group has to start afresh, Sharry says, and with a new, more partisan-minded game plan. “The pro-immigrant world needs to reorganize,” Sharry says. “Bipartisanship was the order of the day,” he says, “but Republicans are now turning their backs. If that’s the direction, I think I should go work for a more partisan organization.”

This would seem to suggest that the open-borders Left has concluded that since they’re going to get a Democratic president and even more Democratic Congress in January 2009, they can ditch all the malarkey about enforcement, which was just intended to attract some Republican votes. I think they’re wrong about this – immigration control, and even reductions, become more achievable as this issue becomes more clearly defined along partisan lines – but it’s an interesting development nonetheless.

Oh, and just an FYI: Sharry is the guy who was so taken by Giuliani’s support for illegal aliens that he called the mayor “a beacon of light in a storm.”