[kittymyrib]

This is the same federal government that is positively helpless in keeping illiterate Mexicans from crawling over a barbed wire fence to get into the US and is now assuring us that they can handle security at ports they have turned over to Arabs. Good grief...Homeland Security couldn't even keep track of ice trucks for Katrina Relief. They must think the US public has amnesia.

[dmanLA]

This is the same federal government that is positively helpless in keeping illiterate Mexicans from crawling over a barbed wire fence to get into the US and is now assuring us that they can handle security at ports they have turned over to Arabs. Good grief...Homeland Security couldn't even keep track of ice trucks for Katrina Relief. They must think the US public has amnesia.

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I think that is exactly the problem now. Conservatives are already fed up with Bush's handling of the border and now he adds handing over day to day operations of ports over to Muslims (most of which are sympathetic to Bin Laden). It's a matter of trust and Bush is wearing out what he has earned.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"and is now assuring us that they can handle security at ports they have turned over to Arabs."

Security has not been handed out to anyone. Security is still handled entirely by the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Customs.