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"We don't have to shut down tourism, we just have to enforce the present immigration and temporary visa laws."

kelly...ours is an open society that respects the right of the individual to be free from unreasonable searches.

If a person overstaying their temporary visa decides to fade into the society, how would you go about finding them?

Would you conduct house searches in the hope that you could capture them somewhere?

How about the ten million illegal aliens in the country, roughly half of them are Mexican, so, do you stop people walking down the street because they "look" Mexican, and ask them to show you proof that they belong here?

If stopped at the street tomorrow, could you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were in fact an American citizen?

I look Hispanic, will I be required to carry sufficient identification on me at all times to satisfy the curiosity of an overzealous LEO?

Just about then only thing that can be done, is to be sufficiently aware to "nab" visa violators at every point they cross paths with law enforcement agencies, and we do that now.

Last year, there were nearly one million voluntary departures of people who were caught overstaying their visas, and a number of forced deportations that I can't recall off the top of my head right now.

>>If a person overstaying their temporary visa decides to fade into the society, how would you go about finding them?<<

My sincere, not sarcastic, question is this:

If we have that problem now, and we do, why should we expect that after allowing untold numbers of more immigrants in, that they will not overstay THEIR legal status, thus compounding the problem, and so on, and so on, and so on?

It seems to me that what Bush has said does not address this very fundamental issue. Maybe I missed it, honestly. But I think this is a legitimate concern.

If stopped at the street tomorrow, could you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were in fact an American citizen

D@mned straight. I have a SS card in my wallet issued to me more than 50 years ago. I also have a birth certificate, and it only cost me $3.00, of course it is a legal one.