The president has done a better job on the borders than his predecessors. His current plan starts out with the NUMBER ONE item border control. The media obsesses over items down as 3 or 4, which are fairly strict hoops for those already present to jump through.
The red meat crowd is falling for it, or being pushed by the FR stealth Democrat activists. Bush is doing a super job on this. What people are not realizing is that with solidly tight borders, as he proposes as number 1, then those present can't go home. When their mother dies, and they go to the funeral, they can't return.
The order of Bush's items in his plan very quietly do almost all of what is needed.
See other comments on the scarcity of working age Americans. The US has to have immigrants. It's not "Illegals do the work Americans won't." That's false. The correct phrasing is "Carefully documented immigrants will do the work that needs doing and there are no Americans of working age available to do it."
Really? Would you care to post the annual total numbers of illegal immigrants who have busted across the border since, say 1988?
"The president has done a better job on the borders than his predecessors".
Bush's predecessors have done nothing but make sure the floodgates were wide open.
Bush has had five years to get things under control and has done nothing but to insure that the floodgates stayed wide open.
You say, "Bush is doing a super job on this".
Doing a super job on what, giving the country away?