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There needs to be a sweeping multi-pronged approach to this for sure. I'm all for cutting the employer component, and I'm not immune to doing it first. End the enticements.

Part of your comments touch on things that make me furious to think about. These people should not be getting a dimes worth of support from our government.

We should not be sending SS payment across to the border, or even to the border for pickup, which is something we have done at certain points.

End the banking relationships. End the ability to send funds to Mexico if you're an illegal.

There are so many things that could be done, and so little that actually is being done.

I support the President and his efforts in the WOT, but one major component that is lacking in that fight against terrorism, is to secure the US borders. Bush has been in the WH for 4yrs-10mths and in that time he's made no effort whatsoever to secure our borders. That leads me to two conclusions. One, Bush supports open borders and the cheap labor it supplies to businesses. Two, Bush`s lack of a serious immigration policy can also be directly attributed to his pandering, in the name of the GOP, for the Hispanic vote in 2006 and 2008.

Reagan signed the IRCA of 1986 into law. If the IRCA of 1986 ahd been enforced, employers would have been prosecuted and punished for breaking the law. And the one time amnesty deal offered under the IRCA of 1986, would have been just that. A one time only amnesty. Instead the feds chose to ignore the IRCA of 1986 which led to the liberal immigration policies of the Clinton years.

The fact that we've had no terrorist attacks tied to our liberal immigration policies has been nothing less then a miracle. Bush is playing with fire. The longer he waits to properly address the immigration issue, the bigger the overall problems will mount.