[FITZ]

There is no public mandate now

Public mandate? There is no public mandate for the open borders nor for the amnesty that Bush is proposing --- actually Silvestre Reyes was only elected to Congress from his region because of his actions while he was head of Border Patrol --- actions which did something to control the border.

[HitmanLV]

There is no public mandate now to militarize the Mexican border. Period.

[Poohbah]

There's no public mandate for doing something effective, as concrete measures would inconvenience a large amount of the same people who oppose illegal immigration in the abstract. Once you start talking about specific actions, all manner of objections spring up.

"Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

BTW, one of my hobbies is calling La Migra in on the guys who pick up day labor in their trucks...the ones with bumper stickers for FAIR, American Patrol, etc.