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And I am sorry to say this because I think highly of Bush. But on the War on Terror and National Security in the face of evil, Bush is nothing more than a lot of hot air as long as he does nothing about this threat.

While much work remains to be done, your statement is not entirely accurate.

Pre 9-11 there were just over 300 Border Patrol Agents assigned to the 4,000 mile US Canadian border. As of this coming January there will be over 1,000 agents and the numbers will continue to grow.

Another significant enforcement improvement was removing the Border Patrol from the INS, which was an agency so liberal, and politically correct they would make the State Department blush.

Just to give you an idea of what the Clinton administration did to border enforcement they picked a Commissioner who was working at the time for the Carnagy Endowment for Peace, the Deputy Commissioner when she left the INS went to the UN High Commission for Refugees. These were the people charged with defending our borders. 9-11 was only a matter time with those people running things.

The Bush Administration has at least assigned enforcement minded senior managers and I believe takes border enforcement seriously. Now if we could just convince them to take on immigration policy with the same zeal as border enforcement as they are inescapably connected.

While much work remains to be done, your statement is not entirely accurate.
Pre 9-11 there were just over 300 Border Patrol Agents assigned to the 4,000 mile US Canadian border. As of this coming January there will be over 1,000 agents and the numbers will continue to grow.

Another significant enforcement improvement was removing the Border Patrol from the INS...

It is not my position that needs worked for accuracy. If you are calling the addition of 700 agents a serious effort given the scope of the problem and the seriousness of the threat, it is you that needs to go back to the post drafting board.

With all due respect, you sound like a politico trying to spin us.

To put it in perspective the shortcomings of what you call progress, contrast the present "effort" to what you imagine a FReeper would set out to do if given the assignment of securing our borders. For starters, government haranging of southern border ranchers trying only to protect their property would not be on the agenda.

I'm sorry, but your reply is as inadequate as the present border control effort. It is so weak, in fact, I wonder if perhaps you are a Bush Administration media agent using this board to difuse this issue politically.