Ya know, your transparently weak change of subject regarding an illegal immigrant problem to one of political choices is, well, weak. I doubt anyone on this thread voted for Boxer or Feinstein. We are unfortunately outnumbered in Cali by the bleeding hearts. Also, maybe you should look at the "impotent" moderate Republican party in California and not the conservatives for your answers to our state reps. They, like the national party, are leaving their principles in the dust to go along - to get along...and keep their jobs.
You have no direct reasonable defense of this abhorrent situation, so you set up a straw dog. At least you're consistent in your immigration positions. Again, enforcement of federal laws rests solely on the Executive Branch. As for state criminal laws not being well enforced, you can blame that on the LEO's being impossibly outnumbered due decades of poor immigration controls - FEDS.
IMO, the transparency lies with those on FR who never complain about Boxer or Feinstein.
It's akin, IMO, to a commander whose is having troubles during the Battle of the Bulge who would lay the blame at Churchill and FDR, instead of hitler.