I also recommended a total revamp of the rules/regs/etc.
These thing were in place after the Clintonites and others finished sanitizing the Dept's. Those Clintonites are still there! Current union rules prevent their transfers or even discipline.
The recent HSD Bill should give them the tools they need to fix these and many other problems with the rules and regs.
We need to understand that Bush does not WANT to keep them out..so they will come it..
I do not see it that way at all. What I see is a president that is struggling to keep a good relationship with Mexico. The changes will be gradual and not just dropped on them like a rock. The fact is, that there are enough wannabes on the other side of that border to overwhelm any barrier that we might put up.
We need a cooperative Mexico, and not a new enemy. They have their issues as well. They are also a important vote in the U.N.! They also provide oil, and power sharing for the U.S.
Look at it from a macro perspective and you will see more clearly what the controlling factors are. There are many more that I have not mentioned.
As much as we like to blame everthing on Clinton most of these new rules were put in place by the current administration..as the Mexican trucks start rolling into your neighborhood..carring more illegals (maybe some terrorists in that mix) and drugs and not meeting our safety and insurance requirments driven by spanish speakers..just remember that daddy Bush helped draw up NAFTA and little Bush just activated it
The controling interest is a European market type government with pesos and dollars and open migration .Any fool could see the problems..any fool but the Bush guys that is..