[179] Bush expressed disappointment upon the defeat of one of his signature domestic initiatives.[180] The Bush administration later proposed a series of immigration enforcement measures that do not require a change in law.[181]
On September 19, 2010, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Bush offered to accept 100,000 Palestinian refugees as American citizens if a permanent settlement had been reached between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.[182]

Hurricane Katrina
Main article: Political effects of Hurricane Katrina
President Bush with hurricane victims in Biloxi, September 2, 2005
Hurricane Katrina struck early in Bush's second term and was one of the most damaging natural disasters in U.S. history. Katrina formed in late August during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and devastated much of the north-central Gulf Coast of the United States, particularly New Orleans.[183]
Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 27[184] and in Mississippi and Alabama the following day.