Question: Oh...We have secured our borders after 9/11?
Your "Answer" (which is a rhetorical question): we haven't made any arrests at the border since 9/11?
Facts presented: "We haven't secured our borders" and "employer arrests/fines have been reduced." And "Bush's budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents," only allocating funds for the hiring of 210.
Opinion: Actions speak louder than words.
= Far from rhetorical.
You:Oh...We have secured our borders after 9/11?
Me:We haven't made any arrests at the border since 9/11?
You gave me a rhetorical question. I responded with a rhetorical question.
My above statement still stands. If you wish to respond to it without asking a rhetorical question that doesn't logically follow from my statement -- I'm all ears.
Else the statement stands without you addressing it.