Thank you wmfights for the kind words.
We need to get border security, and the President knows that. What WE don't know is what else is going on that affects both his decision and the positions of certain people involved in the public debate.
For example, does Fox have a proposal to crack down on the border drug gangs in exchange for help with the new gas discovery? Is there screening of illegals going on when they are caught, with coyotes being turned in? Are there fake coyotes trolling for Arabic terrirsts trying to get into the country? Is Chavez funding the drug lords in order to overturn the Mexican elections, regardless of who wins?
All of those questions are simply from my Midwestern grandma brain, and I am certain there are thousands of other variables.
I want the border controlled both for national security reasons and because I think the illegals are, for a large part, taken advantage of by unscrupulous people here, both Americans and other illegals. I happen to like Mexicans. We have many who attend our church and actually dress up and their children are well-behaved, unlike some of the Anglos. I also have had contact with them in restaurants and in landscaping work I have had done, and they were the hardest working people I have ever met.
I don't want them here illegally, however. I want the illegals to go home and re-apply to come here legally. I want the border controlled with fences, air patrols, and watchtowers. I want coyotes arrested and put in jail.
Anyway, it is now time to go pull more weeds and dead-head perennials. I am just going to wait and see what bill comes out of Congress.