Folks are who they are. They don't change like that.
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Ponder the proposal and note how it addresses these things.
Words are cheap and Dubya has taken no action to date. I live here and I follow developments very closely. Occasionally some official makes a grand pronouncement followed by absolutely no action. Once in a blue moon, the feddies mount an operation that results in a few extra apprehensions. A lot of camera time and sound bites, followed by the usual neglect. I have personally caught their official spokesmen lying like dogs and publically called them out.
I don't have the figures for 2003 yet (still stuck in the political spin-cycle, no doubt), but I do have the 2002 figures. The total catch for 2002 by the Border Patrol and INS along the southern border was 1,062,279. The working agents (not their political bosses) claim they only got maybe 1 in 5. The 8 to 12 million figure being put forth by our political parasites is bogus.