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From the Republican majority in The House, and the majority of Republican in the US Senate(Majority of Republicans in the Senate voted against the evil senate Bill). We happen to be in the majority. It's not 50/50.

Yes, and this week the House Republicans are going to try and pass a marriage amendment. Wow! Exactly what has the Republican majority accomplished?

Look, Its quite cute that President Bush has some maid or whatever, who's been in his family like forever, that came here from Mexico (there's a post somewhere here at FR about it I think), but does that mean the President should turn a blind eye to our immigration laws on the books? No. He swore an oath of office. It would help if he tried vigorously enforcing our immigration laws for a change.

Congress appropriates and authorizes. ICE does what it can with the funding it has. As for the President, he wants a reasoned (meaning non-extremist) approach that recognizes he is the President of all the people, not just a bunch of red state House members most of whom have never been near the border.

Quotas? Of course there are measures of success, that's how I have argued that we never have 100% success rates of catching murderers.

Not aware of any quotas for murderers.

Again, if we never stopped trying to catch murderers, when we don't achieve 100% success rates, why on earth stop trying to apprehend the illegal invaders because we can't catch all 12 million illegals today or this year or whatever?

I'm saying we will spend precious resources going after the numbers. We will catch those who are productive and deport them. That will take up most of the resources, but it's a hell of a lot easier than going after the drug dealers, gang members etc. And the measure of success will be the numbers, not the history of the "felons".

"Yes, and this week the House Republicans are going to try and pass a marriage amendment. Wow! Exactly what has the Republican majority accomplished? "

Now you are come out of the woods.
How is Kos doing these days?

"Congress appropriates and authorizes. ICE does what it can with the funding it has"

ICE can go spend the money from congress on hookers in Mexico?
Who knew?

"As for the President, he wants a reasoned (meaning non-extremist) approach that recognizes he is the President of all the people, ."

He is the president of the United States, not president of Mexico or Mexicans. They have their own president already. The President is out of town on immigration.
His ideas don't make any sense, as eminent economists like Thomas Sowell have proved over and over again.

"not just a bunch of red state House members most of whom have never been near the border"

#1. The illegal immigration problems are affecting every state in the country, even here in New York, where we have hundreds of thousands of the suckers.
# 2. Plenty of Red Sate House members ARE from the border states. In fact I'd say we have more congressmen from the border states than the RATS.

What more ya got?

"I'm saying we will spend precious resources going after the numbers. We will catch those who are productive and deport them. That will take up most of the resources, but it's a hell of a lot easier than going after the drug dealers, gang members etc. And the measure of success will be the numbers, not the history of the "felons"."

As at today, we deport a greater percentage of illegal aliens that have committed crimes than illegal aliens in general.
In fact in New York City, you gotta commit a crime as an illegal before the police or anyone else will even take any interest in you at all.
So your don't have a point.
Going after all illegals doesn't mean we are going to go after the the criminal illegals any less.
The DEA and the FBI will continue to go after the illegal alien drug dealers, same as before.

"Congress appropriates and authorizes. ICE does what it can with the funding it has"

The Bush administration and ICE is not doing what congress is telling it to do:

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 called for at least 2,000 more Border Patrol agents per year along our border with Mexico to stop the unrelenting flow of people and illegal drugs into this country. But the Bush administration provided funding for only around 200 additional agents.