It went as well as I could have anticipated, all things being equal.

He seemed to be very emphatic in stressing that John McCain's priority will be to enforce existing immigration laws. Personally, I wasn't convinced of this-even though I didn't doubt Mr. Cox's sincerity in making that declaration-simply based upon John McCain's awful track record on this issue. He did declare that John McCain opposed granting driver's licenses to illegals, which is an improvement upon the stance of Barack Obama.

However, another problematic area cropped up when he invoked the frequent hobgoblin of open borders advocates, i.e. are you in favor of deporting every illegal alien immediately, not taking into account the fact that deportation through gradual attrition is the best long-term solution to this monumental domestic problem.

Later in the week I spoke at a public hearing held by the good Assemblyman Greg Ball-who's attempting to recover the 23k driver's licenses issued, illegally, to temporary non-residents during Elliot Spitzer's short-lived administration-and listened to several other speakers offer their proposed solutions to this problem. As far as the presidential race, Stephen Steinlight-who works for FAIR-said that he instinctively thought Obama would be better on the issue of amnesty/immigration for the simple fact that it was not a priority of his, even though on paper he is just as bad-if not worse-than his Republican opponent.