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With all due respect for their work, and speaking as a throw-em-all-out advocate, this is like saying that ending Prohibition was an insult to the men who devoted their careers to fighting rumrunning.

I have read quite a bit of history about America in the 20s and I'll be damned if I have yet to see an account of a fifth of bootleg whiskey trying to access emergency medical care, enroll in school, apply for foodstamps, or undercutting the wage structure.

nearly three dozen current and former agents across the nation called Bush's proposal an insult to the thousands of men and women who have devoted their careers to fighting illegal immigration

With all due respect for their work, and speaking as a throw-em-all-out advocate, this is like saying that ending Prohibition was an insult to the men who devoted their careers to fighting rumrunning.

I agree that controlling the border is more valuable than controlling what citizens put in their bodies---but that doesn't make a loosening of immigration law an "insult" to those who have enforced the stricter laws.