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What good is beefing up border security when Immigration agents and law enforcement have no power and are in fact barred from arresting illegals and deporting them?

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President Bush has just opened the door (pardon the pun) to discussion of immigration policy. We have to have a workable policy before we can have a workable enforcement.

During his first campaign for president, he said he wanted to reform Soash' Security. Critics said he shouldn't mention the "third rail" in politics, yet he did, he got elected, and 3 years later hardly anything has been reformed. It is a slooow process. So will immigration policy be a slow process. At least he is willing to look at the problem.

I keep reading the thread on immigration..... pro and con.

Bottom line IS; We have a national problem with immigration, illegals, enforcement, border security etc. It has been the elephant in the room.
Now that Bush has brought it up and proposes to face the problem, there are too many people who want to "shoot the messenger".
There is/are no easy solutions, but at least "W" is addressing the issue. Hats off to the leader! Let's see what congress, whose job is to solve the problems, does with it?!?!?!? Bush is simply telling them "deal with it"!

President Bush has just opened the door (pardon the pun) to discussion of immigration policy. We have to have a workable policy before we can have a workable enforcement.

If he thought HE needed to be the one to open the discussion, where the hell has he been? Some of us have been clamoring for YEARS over the issue! And by the way, deporting people who shouldn't be here and making sure they don't cross into the U.S. to begin with seems a pretty simple and workable policy to me.

During his first campaign for president, he said he wanted to reform Soash' Security. Critics said he shouldn't mention the "third rail" in politics, yet he did, he got elected, and 3 years later hardly anything has been reformed. It is a slooow process. So will immigration policy be a slow process. At least he is willing to look at the problem.

He's looking at it the wrong way. I know he wants to be the "compassionate conservative" and help EVERYONE, but damn it we can't afford it, and the states can't afford it. Illegals will break California. And slow process or not, the very fact he's proposing such lunacy is an alarming signal at the least!