This is where I really hammer Dubya. After 911, he could have closed the borders and deport all illegals. No one would really would have said anything and the American public would have backed him 100%. Instead he used 911 for the Patriot Act where we spy on our own because we don’t know who is here...
W. was too busy holding hands with the Saudis (literally) and telling the American people that Islam is the religion of peace for any of that. Apparently, it's easier to kick his own countrymen in the teeth than to hurt the feelings of his crony pals abroad.
Six or seven years later, when Mexico was on its way into turning into a narco-state and blew up in a paroxysm of gang violence, W. kept babbling about how family values don't stop at the Rio Grande rather than securing the border. His brother is cut from the same roll of fabric.