This is the key thing to understand about the immigration deal–the amnesty effectively happens no matter what. As soon as the bill is signed into law illegal immigrants get probationary legal status. Before any of the enforcement happens. So the ordering is exactly the same as 1986–amnesty first, enforcement later. Maybe you trust the Bush administration and Chertoff to follow through on the enforcement (although the chances are that you don’t). But will you trust the Democratic administration we will probably have in two years and its secretary of homeland security? This has disaster written all over it.