[NJ_gent]

"This is why we need to seriously clean up our borders."

I'm almost to the point where I'll vote for whoever agrees to secure our coasts and borders, almost to the exclusion of the rest of their platform. This is the number one issue this year, and NEITHER of the two major candidates for President have shown any sign whatsoever of providing security at the border. In fact, both have shown a disturbing willingness to open the borders up even wider than they already are, and to prevent the USBP from performing its duties. Things are getting ridiculously dangerous with this issue. This will simply become a worse and worse problem until shopping malls and nightclubs start randomly exploding.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Mega dittoes...you listen to speeches of Bush saying that he'll protect the security of America at all costs...then he turns around and pulls crap such as the guest-worker (amnesty) plan. If Bush thinks more Hispanics are going to vote for him because of this he's simply wrong...actually touting border security would cause more Hispanic voters to vote for him because most Hispanics who live here legally in the U.S. despise the illegal aliens.

[edchambers]

(snip) NEITHER of the two major candidates for President have shown any sign whatsoever of providing security at the border.

Bingo! just a minor glitch in our two party system.Niether side has anything to gain from actually stopping illeagal immigration.Big $ Republicans want cheap labor, Socialist Democrats want cheap votes, sooo ya get what we have now.In all fairness there have been some improvements since 911 but not nearly enough.