[snugs]

Isn't Bush responsible for securing our border, especially after 9/11? Why has only 11 miles of single fence been built since the passage of the Secure FenceAct in October 2006, a bill that authorized the construction of 854 miles of double fencing? Where does the buck stop? Whom do we hold accountable for the fact that 500,000 to 1 million people are entering our country illegally each year?

To an extent that is true but a President has to delegate and if people that are employed to do this are not doing their job it hardly the President's fault.

[kabar]

To an extent that is true but a President has to delegate and if people that are employed to do this are not doing their job it hardly the President's fault.

Sorry, but the buck stops in the WH. If people are not carrying out your orders, you fire them and get new people who will. This is a matter of national security. The sad truth is the WH is against building a fence and an enforcement first approach. It has been almost six years since 9/11.

FBI's Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation

Illegals from terrorist nations are crossing the border into Arizona.

Capture of three al Qaeda terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border

[sgtyork]

Just to put the 11 miles in perspective, in railroad history the Central Pacific once set a record of laying 10 miles of track in 1 day..

http://cprr.org/Museum/Southern_Pacific_Bulletin/Ten_Mile_Day.html

Also, spokesmen for the white house had let this drop off the radar screen— for example when Tony Snow didn’t know how many miles had been built.

[bvw]

t a President has to delegate and if people that are employed to do this are not doing their job it hardly the President's fault.

If the workers at McDonalds serve the hamburgers frozen -- it's not the shift manager's fault, and it's certainly not the franchise owner's fault. Yes. Wonderful management theory thinking. Leading edge.