[untrained skeptic]

PresBush supports open borders. Bush wants to assure that there is a continued flow of cheap labor into the US from Mexico. Pandering for the Hispanic vote is another reason to ignore the illegal immgration problem. For five years the President has been running away from this critical national security issue. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Bull crap.

Bush's actions show he supports closed borders with legal immigration to provide for a needed work force.

Bush's actions on border security were slow in coming, but that have been coming.

He's been using the powers the executive branch has to expedite deportations. He's been fighting the bureaucracy to allow the border patrol to do their jobs. However the bureaucracy has been built up over decades. Our court system has become stymied with asylum efforts and appeals processes that make it very difficult for illegal aliens to be deported.

It is also nearly impossible to punish illegal aliens to discourage them from returning because our prisons are full.

The States have fought attempts at reform by making it easy for illegal aliens to acquire identification and making it harder to find and prosecute them.

The President's powers to address this are extremely limited. It takes legislation to address these problems.

Bush has proposed legislation to build more prisons, increase the number of federal judges hearing immigration cases, streamline the deportation process, and increase the size of the border patrol.

Tancredo is a liar and an idiot. He espouses impractical "solutions" that cannot be implemented and attacks anyone who doesn't support them with lies.

If his solutions were merely impractical or not implementable, I could respect him for trying to address this extremely important issue. However, since he lies and attacks other people trying to address the issue, I have zero respect for the moron.

[dennisw]

He's been using the powers the executive branch has to expedite deportations. He's been fighting the bureaucracy to allow the border patrol to do their jobs. However the bureaucracy has been built up over decades. Our court system has become stymied with asylum efforts and appeals processes that make it very difficult for illegal aliens to be deported.

Hasn't happened. You are buying into a myth

[NapkinUser]

"Bush's actions show he supports closed borders...."

Gee....that's only contrary to everything Bush has ever said on this subject.

[Reagan Man]

The borders are still wide open. Well over a million illegal aliens attempt to cross into the US every year. Employers still hire illegals to work for them, in direct violation of US law. The Feds still offer freebies to illegals. US infrastructure along the border has been overwhelmed by the illegal invasion.

>>>>Tancredo is a liar and an idiot.

Congressmen Tancredo, Pence, Hefley, Hyde, Sensenbrenner, Shadegg and 75 other members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus speak the truth. You've been hoodwinked by Bush and the open borders crowd. Bush&Company have done nothing to address the illegal immigration problem in the last five years and I seriously doubt they wil do anything in the next three years that will begin to solve the problems of this national security issue.

[F16Fighter]

"He's been using the powers the executive branch has to expedite deportations. He's been fighting the bureaucracy to allow the border patrol to do their jobs."

Lol, have another pint of Kool-Ade. You're delusional.

You call how the President's handled the post 9/11 multi-million invasion from Mexico "leadership"?

[mthom]

Bush endorses a guest worker program for mexicans that is so great that the only people who would try to jump the border would be terrorists, drug runners, and criminals who could not qualify for the program. Obviously you support that.