We have caught more illegals last year than in all of clinton's years combined.
With the rise of the internet people get more info and are more willing to take risks crossing borders.
Clinton also didn't help by appointing supreme court justices that voted in 2003 to affirmative action for any hispanic.
William Jefferson Clinton is the most overated president ever. Congress did everything, only thing he did was veto good bills. He did nothing about terrorism for 8 years and left with the economy in a bubble.
Remember that your clinton also pushed nafta through which effects came after he left. Same with Clinton doing nothing about terrorism for 8 years and running from somalia. Effects came after he left.
John, you don't need to sell me on what Clinton was is and always will be. The issue was illegals. In the 2000 census it was determined that there were about 10 million illegals in our nation. Those ten million had come into the nation since around 1989, since that's about when the last amensty ended.
Last year Time did a report that documented three million illegals coming across. I would generally dismiss Time's figures, but the INS announced that it had apprehended over 900 thousand people in about nine months. Traditionally INS agents have admitted that they generally only catch somewhere between 10 and 20% of those coming across the border.
For that reason the 3 million figure doesn't sound that far off base. That is especially true since INS agents were decrying a massive increase in border crossings in the first half of 2005.
It doesn't give me any pleasure to address this issue at Bush's expense. I wish he'd put an end to it now. I'd give him kudos for having done so.