Even though President Bush pandered to Latin Americans by proposing an amnesty program that most Americans (you know, the people who are citizens of THIS country) reject.

President Bush yesterday said he wants the House and Senate to pass immigration bills by August but said the U.S. will continue to send home illegal aliens caught in the meantime, disappointing his Guatemalan hosts who wanted all deportations to end.

"The United States will enforce our law. It's against the law to hire somebody who's in our country illegally, and we are a nation of law," Mr. Bush said.

He said his plan is to find a bill "most Republicans are comfortable with" in the Senate, then begin working with Democrats in the Senate, before turning to the House.

But he received an earful from Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, who said he was worried Guatemalans are being deported "without clear justification," based on a raid at a leather goods factory last week in Massachusetts.

"The Guatemalan people would have preferred a more clear and positive response no more deportations, so to say," he said, according to a translation of his remarks at a joint press conference with Mr. Bush.

I've got an idea -- if these nations object so strongly to American sovereignty and American immigration policy, they should put their money (or rather, put our money) where their mouth is and reject all American foreign aid in protest. Otherwise, if these nations continue to promote the breaking of American law and violation of American sovereignty while sucking at the American teat, we should cut them off.