Amen! This single issue is the main reason I am so disenchanted with President Bush. He has been so great for our country in other areas, why can't he "get" the fact that illegals - of ALL stripes - are a major concern of many voters.
My wife is a L&D Nurse, and at least once a day she relates some story about a patient who came in via an ambulance (paid for by the taxpayer), to the ER (paid for by the taxpayer), to have an emergency C-Section (paid for by the taxpayer), only to have the baby, a new US citizen end up in a neonatal intensive care unit at about $100K+ (paid for by the taxpayer) because the illegal didn't have any prenatal care. Last week it was an illegal with twins that fit this exact profile - the estimated bill (paid for by the taxpayer) will be in excess of $500K for the entire process. And what just frosts her butt if whenever she goes over the admission paperwork with the illegal she gets a little smile when she asks about her social security number.
Now the really bad part is that even though this would be the ideal place to have INS come in a catch the illegal and her 20+ relatives (all illegal) no hospital allows it, nor would the Feds respond to it.....
I feel the same as you do. Pres. Bush is a great patriot and a good man, doing what it takes to defend the nation, and yet while going off to fight outlaws, he leaves the farm unprotected, and the baryard door wide open. (Except in this case, the varmints go IN, instead of OUT!) Many of the crazy notions he supports seem to come from this nut Karl Rove, but the President is still responsible for choosing his advisors. If he gets the credit for Rumsfeld and Rice, he gets the blame for Rove. (I'm not sure what to say about Powell.)