Senator John Kyl (the other Arizona Republican) has also abandoned the principle of comprehensive reform for a more politically rewarding (at least in the GOP base and the Lou Dobbs Amen Corner) punitive "border security" measure. Oh, and back on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney is trying to have it both ways by loving immigration when before Hispanic audiences, bashing Giuliani for presiding over a "sanctuary city" while he was Mayor New York (flouting immigration laws by refusing to enforce them).

Related: In case anyone out there cares about America's farmers, our food supply, or the profound immorality of causing billions of dollars worth of crops to rot unharvested by denying employers access to low cost, immigrant agricultural workers you might find this recent Wall Street Journal editorial interesting:

Peak harvest season is approaching in much of the country, and the biggest issue on the minds of many growers isn't the weather but how in the world they'll get their crops from the vine or off the tree. Thanks to Congress's immigration failure, farmers nationwide are facing their most serious labor shortage in years. The problem was bad enough last year that some 20% of American agricultural products were stranded at the farm gate. And it's looking even worse this year, with estimates of crop losses in California, America's largest agricultural producer, estimated to hit 30%.