You're 100% on target.
It will take another 9-11 before anyone wakes up.
The "We Will Never Forget" crowd never got it in the first place.
Every quarter, W asks for another $100B supplemental funding for the war. If I were sitting in his chair, I'd have taken 1% of one quarter's funding and built the friggin wall six years ago. Anyone found here illegally would be deported. No revolving door catch-and-release. Border agents would be given a $100 bonus for each illegal sent back to Mex-e-co.
This is not rocket science.
And just for effect, I'd have a moratorium on all work visas.
America has become a squishy-squashy limp wristed, gutless country. Terrroists have to be laughing at us. And we just lap it up.
/rant
Nomex on, and Halon at the ready.
“It will take another 9-11 before anyone wakes up”
If there are indeed 50,000 sleepers, which a rational person could not rule out, 9/11 could become a veritable blip on the radar screen.
Even when I was a staunch advocate for Hispanic illegals being mostly good and hardworking people (which I still believe, but I have hardened), I was amazed that the Mexican border was not closed after 9/11 strictly for anti-terrorism reasons. No matter where a person stands on the immigration issue, the fact that sleepers can walk or drive freely into America 6 years after our “wakeup call” is inexcusable. And I don’t see an effective wall actually being built in the forseeable future...they are talking about a couple hundred miles of fence on a 1,951-mile border.