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"This amendment will send our military personnel to our borders at a time when they are already stretched thin in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Kosovo, Bosnia and over 100 other countries around the world," he said. "We cannot and we should not ask our military personnel to patrol our borders."

There's an excuse for everything it seems when it comes to any attempt at getting illegal immigration under control:

• We can't put the military on the border, it's stretched too thin as it is and there's the danger of violence against the citizens.

• We can't let the police help enforce the law, it will damage relations with the immigrant community, and besides, that job belongs to the feds.

• We can't let hospitals report illegals, it's not their job and will discourage the aliens from seeking free medical help thereby spreading diseases.

• We can't enforce employer sanctions, the illegal aliens are here to work the jobs lazy Americans "just don't want to do" for minimum wage.

• We can't cut off welfare and other freebies, their American born children will suffer and that's mean-spirited.

Yet after they're finished making their thousand excuses in the same breath they'll mumble something about how they agree the border needs to be controlled and the laws enforced.

Why don't these politicians just admit it for a change, they don't want illegals stopped from coming in, they don't want the laws against them enforced once they're here, and they prefer we shut our mouths about it.