"He's been using the powers the executive branch has to expedite deportations. He's been fighting the bureaucracy to allow the border patrol to do their jobs."Lol, have another pint of Kool-Ade. You're delusional.
You call how the President's handled the post 9/11 multi-million invasion from Mexico "leadership"?
The executive branch is in general limited to enforcing the laws passed by the legislature. But the administration has done somethings within their pwoer. The took the procedure of Expedited Deportation which was only used at ports under Clinton and expanded it's use to within 100 miles of the Mexican border. What it does is greatly speed up the deportation process when illegal aliens are caught within 14 days of entering the country and within 100 miles of the border. Without expediting the process it takes weeks or months. We don't have the space in prisons to hold these people for that long, so they were given a hearing date and release. Ninety percent didn't show up for their hearings. With expidited deportation, the process only takes a couple days and we can hold many more people when we only have to hold them for a short time. It's worked well near the Mexican border, so now the administration is expanding it to cover within 100 miles of the Canadian border as well. However, working well is relative. Doubling the pitiful number of deportations compared is still a pitiful amount compared to the number of illegal aliens. We need more jail space, and we need mroe federal judges. What else has the Bush administration done? Bush has appointed a lot of judges that the pro-illegal imigration lobby absolutely hates. Environmentalists had held up the completion of a 14 mile border fence near the Pacific ocean. It had 3.5 miles to go on the Pacific side and 1.5 miles to go on the eastrn side. The border fence had been approved by congress in 1996, but it was being effectively stalled indefinately due to our insane environmental laws. Last year Congress gave the department of homeland security the authority to grant an environmental waiver in such issues of homeland security. Chertoff wasted little time in granting the waiver once he had the authority, and the fence is being completed. Bush has been lukewarm in his support of border enforcement. , and now that I've gone back and read his first plans for a guest worker program, I do agree that they did offer amnesty to illegal aliens who were already in the US and already had a job. We simply cannot afford to do that. I believe that a visa program that matches willing workers with available jobs can be beneficial to the US.
However for any guest worker program to work, the jobs have to be able to support thsoe people. The guest workers cannot be allowed to have their incomes subsidized by entitlement programs. They need to be able to pay for their own health care as well. If the can't pay their own way, they shouldn't be allowed to enter the country. If they lose the ability to pay their own way, they must be deported.
Any guest worker program MUST not give any preference to those who broke the law to come here. I don't believe that we should allow anyone currently in the country illegally to apply to such a program.
Deport the illegal aliens. A reasonable concession would be to allow those who do not fight deportation and do not have a criminal record other than being in the country illegally to apply for the guest worker program from their home country after they have left the US.
Bush hasn't been aggressive as I would like on border security, but he is using his authority to make it better, and he is appointing people that are getting the border patrol to do better with what they have.
However, the border patrol, the courts, and our prison system have nowhere near the capabilities to handle the problem, and it's still getting worse not better.