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What is it that he can do and he refuses to.

That list would be quite long, so I’ll just point out a couple.

1. Punish Mexico for its blatant support of illegal immigration. This can be done by not issuing visa's to Mexico. His father did it to India during Gulf War 1. Works wonders.

2. Stop giving foreign aid to countries that support illegal immigration.

3. Increasing the number of officer enforcing Immigration Law; and not by 250. We lose twice that each year in retirement and attrition.

All can be done by executive order, without Congressional approval.

Some Underwhelmed by Border Patrol Personnel Increases
By Patrick Yoest, CQ Staff
The Department of Homeland Security’s budget for 2006 will include increases in Border Patrol personnel and detention beds, but the size of the increases has some immigration control advocates grumbling.

Congress provided funds for 500 new agents in a supplemental spending bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan passed in May (PL 109-13), and it added another 1,000 in the DHS spending bill recently signed into law (PL 109-90). But an authorization bill for DHS (HR 1817) and an intelligence reform law passed last December (PL 108-458) require the addition of 2,000 Border Patrol agents, 500 more than Congress actually provided.

Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and John Ensign, R-Nev., sponsored legislation earlier this year that would have provided the full 2,000 agents.

A spokesman for Hutchison said the senator was not satisfied with the outcome of the appropriations process.

“She’s happy that we met three-fourths of our goal here but it’s still far from enough,” said Chris Paulitz, Hutchison’s communications director. “We need some bold action here, and we’re trying to fill a hole in a dam with a Band-Aid.”

Additionally, the DHS appropriations bill fell short of Congress’ earlier call for an increase in detention beds. The 2004 intelligence reform bill mandated 40,000 new beds, to be provided in increments of 8,000 beds between fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2010. But the appropriations bill includes funding for only 2,300 new beds.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said that Congress’ reluctance to hire more Border Patrol agents is not only a question of paying the agents, but of training them as well.

“You don’t just create Border Patrol out of the blue,” Krikorian said in a telephone interview. “They’ve got to speak Spanish, have firearms training, all that stuff.”

Military aid to Mexico from the United States has remained suspended since last autumn because a dispute related to the International Criminal Court (ICC), U.S. media reported Wednesday.

The sanctions were imposed last October after Mexico became a signatory to the Hague-based ICC, which was set up in 2002 to hunt down perpetrators of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

Mexico is the 12th country from Latin America sanctioned by the U.S. government under a law that was approved by the U.S. Congress four years ago to shield Americans, especially overseas-based troops, diplomats and agents, from ICC jurisdiction.

The sanctions have cost Mexico some 1.1 million U.S. dollars of U.S. aid for anti-terror and anti-narcotics training, and a 2.5 million-dollar program to provide anti-terror equipment to the Mexican military.

This can be done by not issuing visa's to Mexico is a violation of our trade agreements Mixco. It could be done if you don't mind them selling their oil to China. China has already opened large ports there.