"We have established working groups with ardent goals and short deadlines to make recommendations for better enforcement strategies all across the operations spectrum," Chertoff wrote in a Monday letter to Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona.
He also called immigration enforcement an issue of utmost importance.
Yeah, but it's the SOLUTION, the COUNTER to the concern that is the important and quite significant thing here.
Homeland Security (Chertoff, Bush, et al.) can simply eliminate a border security issue and call that solution. Just as Bush seems to think a "guest worker program" won't create millions upon millions and ongoing more illegal aliens in the U.S.. Ooops, in Bush speak, that's "guest workers."
Bush seems to think that just renaming the problem solves the problem. You can't have a "guest worker" who is guaranteed to return home to where he/she originated if you have no process to force/compel their return after their "guest" stay has expired.
We NEED THAT PROCESS before any such "guests" arrive or are renamed already here before any such process can even begin to be discussed without bursting out laughing/crying at the preposterousness of the language involved.
It's all about practical measures. If the U.S. does not have: (1.) secure borders [means SECURE, does not mean arguable under various circumstances]; (2.) effective penalties in place to punish and deter those who violate the secure borders; and, (3.) well moderated, staffed and moderated border barriers for foot/vehicle traffic violations of those secure borders, then we might as well just lay it all down as an issue.
The Chertoff statements don't imply a solution but an appeasement. I do think what he's implying is that they're going to implement a "guest" pass to anyone anytime anyplace at any border point just to not have to deal with that "impossible to monitor" border, as Bush calls it.
We need a secure border FENCE/BARRICADE/WHATEVERYOU CALL IT on the Southern Border, which will stop a certain amount of illegal aliens entering the country immediately, and then we can turn attention to include the northern and coastal issues.
We have to stem the problem first at the Southern Border with some barricade that is not surmountable and staff it, just get that done (question should be being asked here, as to why it has not been), and then contend with the others.