[Kakaze]

Chertoff..." He noted that because 40 percent of illegal immigrants come in legally but overstay their visas, no amount of border security could stem that tide"

So, then shutting the border down would have an effect on 60 percent of the problem & you have no deseire to start there?

I think chertoff, you are part of the probelm!

[kabar]

So set up a system to track, monitor, and repatriate visa overstays. The US Visit Program was passed in 1996 and has yet to be implemented. Chertoff has been a disaster. He is not a manager and should never have been appointed Secretary of DHS. The most people he had ever supervised before was a small legal staff. I blame him for the Katrina debacle because he was mired in legalisms with Blanco rather than demonstrating operational effectiveness by taking action immediately and worrying about the legal issues later.

[org.whodat]

I think moonbeam chertoff, you are part of the problem!

[CharlesWayneCT]

But we have a law from 1996 which requires the government to set up both an entry and exit tracking system. We don’t have the exit system set up yet, which is why we don’t know people overstayed their visas.

The Bush administration seems to have failed to implement that law.

[dirtboy]

Chertoff..." He noted that because 40 percent of illegal immigrants come in legally but overstay their visas, no amount of border security could stem that tide"

Well, the other 60 percent of illegals apparently enter illegally, so border security would put a damper on that.

Meanwhile, Chertoff, you have said DHS cannot track overstays nearly six years after 9-11.

So do us all a favor and resign, so maybe someone else can spend more time doing their job and less time whining about being unable to do their job as "proof" that we need this abomination of an immigration bill.

[danamco]

Chertoff..." He noted that because 40 percent of illegal immigrants come in legally but overstay their visas, no amount of border security could stem that tide"

So, then shutting the border down would have an effect on 60 percent of the problem & you have no deseire to start there?

I think chertoff, you are part of the probelm!

The Ruuskies were able to build an effective wall across the two "German" countries (The Iron curtain" with less prosperity than what the U.S. has!

There are an estimated 75,000 dams in the United States, blocking 600,000 miles (960,000 km) of river or about 17% of rivers in the nation [1]. The following is a partial list of reservoirs and dams in the United States!!

And we are not able to build a few thousand miles fences!!!

Hello, hello???