[Poohbah]

Feinstein is middle of the pack against Illegals, better than a lot of Republicans in the House and Senate (Boxer is another matter).

I'd ordinarily take you a wee bit more seriously, but she was one of the first local leaders to forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with the BP/INS; that is now de rigeur across much of California. That means that she has a lot of mea culpa-ing to do on this topic, and the oddball vote on one minor point or another of the illegal alien problem is not nearly enough. She started the flippin' avalanche. Finally, most of her efforts "against illegal immigration" boil down to passing out more federal money to California to defray the costs of the illegal immigration she's encouraged.

[Sabertooth]

I'd ordinarily take you a wee bit more seriously, but she was one of the first local leaders to forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with the BP/INS; that is now de rigeur across much of California. That means that she has a lot of mea culpa-ing to do on this topic, and the oddball vote on one minor point or another of the illegal alien problem is not nearly enough. She started the flippin' avalanche. Finally, most of her efforts "against illegal immigration" boil down to passing out more federal money to California to defray the costs of the illegal immigration she's encouraged.

Feinstein is far from perfect, and further than that from ever getting my vote, but her record isn't nearly as bad as many Democrats and not a few Republicans on the subject of Illegals.

There are some report cards for her here and there.

If you click around on those sites, you'll see that Boxer is far worse.

The avalanche started with the Amnesty of 1986, and it had bipartisan origins.