For President Bush, immigration isn't a dry policy debate. It's personal Start with the Mexican-born American citizen who tends his house and helped raise his kids. President george w. bush seemed unusually heartfelt when he addressed the nation last week on immigration reform. For the president, immigration is not just a matter of polities or policy, it's personal. Bush has always heen drawn to stories of Latino immigrants who came up by their bootstraps. In an interview with Hispanic Magazine in 2004, he described Paula Rendon, "who came up from Mexico to work in our house" when Bush was a boy growing up in Midland, Texas. "She loved me. She chewed me out. She tried to shape me up," said Bush. "And I have grown to love her like a second mom."
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