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"...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.

So even after illegal immigrants plowed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it's "impossible" for a President committed to defending our borders to rally the populace behind him? I don't think so.

Nor would we need to put our entire armed forces on the borders, though, frankly, I'd rather see them defending America than engaged in nation building in Iraq. By enforcing employer sanctions, you diminish the economic incentives for illegal immigration--many illegals would then simply go home. And, if need be, we could build a fence. I've yet to see a rational argument as to why such a fence would not work.

And how is there "accountability" for illegal immigrants under Bush's plan? Now, it's "impossible" to enforce our laws, but, after Bush waves his magic wand, the illeglas will suddenly be held "accountable?"