To: brytlea
I don't like a lot of what goes on with Illegal Immigrants and feel it could be better managed but to lay everything on the President's shoulders would ignore the fact that there are enormous years of legal restraints put on many Presidents. I would like to see a fence but that would fall into a budgetary issue that must be approved by congress. We have laws but to have laws with teeth is also a congressional issue. DHS should do more on their end of enforcement but there has to be a balance of reality to what they really can do. To put a full fence up around the whole border, north and south, would cost about $10-$15 Billion and that's not something the President has in his petty cash fund but I support one none the less.
160 posted on
04/20/2006 12:29:15 PM PDT by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: tobyhill
Congress and the courts are equally to blame. I don't lay everything at Bush's feet, however, he's not even SAYING The right things.
susie
161 posted on
04/20/2006 12:31:09 PM PDT by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: tobyhill
>>>"but to lay everything on the President's shoulders"
He's in charge of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch EXECUTES the law. He's where the buck stops. If he wants the laws upheld, he can get it done.
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