[Thorin]

Ah, yes, it's all the fault of the liberal courts. If enforcing our immigration laws and defending our borders were a priority to Bush, he would highlight the need to defend our borders and enforce our laws and point out the great damage caused by illegal immigration. After 9/11, this would not be a tough sell.

Instead, he resurrects the amnesty plan that was in the works before 9/11, warbles about how wonderful the illegals are, and apologizes because our laws aren't "humane." The simple fact is that Bush has no intention whatever to enforce our immigration laws or defend our borders, and he wants to give business the right to import unlimited amounts of low-wage, Third World labor whenever it wants.

[jim35]

"...defend our borders and enforce our laws and point out the great damage caused by illegal immigration. After 9/11, this would not be a tough sell..."

No, not a tough sell, but impossible to do. Gonna move the entire army, navy, air force, etc to the border? Put them all on the 'great wall of America,' reinstate the draft (or pull all the troops out of the rest of the world, for the manpower), and leave them there forever. Or maybe just do grand sweeps for illegals, using all of our military and LEO resources. Of course, we'd have to do it every year, or maybe every month. Or we could put those who use their labor out of business with huge fines. Yep, maybe it's possible. Or maybe President Bush has a better plan, where there is accountability for those 10-20 million illegals already here. Unlike you, I don't have any pat answer. There's no winning here, no matter what we do, and acting like there are simplistic solutions is just childish.