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The people elected those bureaucrats, or at least the people that appointed them.

The states make the laws on how most of the benefits are doled out, not the federal government. The state governments need to stop blaming the feds for not maintaining a closed border, and start removing the reasons for those people to come here.

I think 2000 more border patrol agents is a good idea, but it's not going to make a huge difference in stopping illegal immigration. We currently have around 11,000 agents which is 2000 more than when Clinton was in office. Another 2000 will make our extremely porous borders a little less porous, but the majority will still get through.

The law that allows the border patrol to hire 2000 more agents didn't provide funding to hire them. It's just lip service from Congress on the issue.

The department of homeland security apparently feels that the money they have is better spent on hiring a smaller number of new agents and spending more on technological advancements to make the agents they have more effective.

The department of homeland security doesn't have an unlimited budget. Bush does deserve the blame for not asking for money to fund the 2000 new agents in his budget proposal. He does need to be more fiscally responsible, but I don't think this is getting the priority it deserves.

Congress still has the ability to allocate the funds to hire those agents and direct that it should be spent on that purpose. I don't expect that they will do so, because I don't think they were serious about it when they passed the provision in the original law. They just wanted to be on record as voting for it, and the liberals want to be able to blame Bush when it doesn't happen, even though they are the ones that have the responsibility of creating and passing the budget.

If we really want to get control of the illegal immigrant problem, we're going to have to attack it at the state and local level. Our borders are too large for us to really be effective at stopping enough of the immigrants at the border.

More agents is a good step in the right direction, but it's a small step toward solving a massive problem.

"If we really want to get control of the illegal immigrant problem, we're going to have to attack it at the state and local level. Our borders are too large for us to really be effective at stopping enough of the immigrants at the border."

I agree with most of what you said. I think the most effective thing that could be done at the federal level, is making policies that force the mexican govt. to change and reform. Our govt. doesn't have any problem manipulating us this way, so why not the corrupt mexican gpvt.? That would stop the flood of people, and put a hurt on the corruption.

I won't be happy until vicente and his elitist friends are pinnatas.