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"If we don't have a temporary worker program, I think it's going to be extraordinarily difficult to ask our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents to stem the tide that is driven by a huge economic engine of employers looking for people who can work [in jobs that] won't be done by Americans," Chertoff told reporters during a briefing on the administration's Border Security Initiative.

Up is down, and down is up.

If they enact this so-called guest worker program, the flood will be a tidal wave. Hey, if they can get across the border, the people can get guest worker status. Hard to say if Chertoff really beleives the BS he's spouting, or if he's only being an obedient lackey, but the BS still stinks.

In either case, this is being driven by President Bush, and is one of the biggest mistakes he's made.

SECURE THE BORDER FIRST. Then, we'll talk about the rest of it. Without a secure border, they're whistling in the wind.

Hard to say if Chertoff really beleives the BS he's spouting, or if he's only being an obedient lackey, but the BS still stinks.

He's too smart to not understand the problem (remember, it was Chertoff alone who unveiled The Lippo Group ten years ago).

So he's being an obediant lackey. Period.

There was a post on FR a day or two ago stating that GWB intended to start an enforcement program first (PR value) as the new lead-in to the guest worker/amnesty program.

That's precisely what we're seeing right now.