Right...y'all keep on spewing the same talking points without addressing the facts. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain, aka Congress.
Repeal of Posse Comitatus - Congress has to do that
Funding of additional guards, equipment and fences - Congress has to do that.
Passing immigration reform - they don't like Bush's plan, so again, it falls to Congress to act.
The Act doesn't pertain to the borders, I've told you that a million times.
Funding of additional guards, equipment and fences - Congress has to do that.
The money is already there, it is being misdirected in other Dept of Homeland Security pork-barrel adventures.
Passing immigration reform - they don't like Bush's plan, so again, it falls to Congress to act.
Bush isn't using the Executive Powers granted to him to enforce existing immigration laws. This is why Tancredo, Hayworth and others are "whining" for Bush to do something. Why would they waste their time trying to pass immigration bills when it's going to get watered down or stripped by arm-twisting from the Bush administration themselves?
you're not getting it.
The president is all about open borders. Thus far he has shown little or no interst in actual border protection. Everything he has done at the border has been window dressing. Every year the numbers of people streaming over the border remains high.--And that despite the doubling of oil prices and the doubling of oil revenues going to Mexico.
The only people who will actually do anything to close the borders is the congress. Despite the house bill on the matter recently the people who inhabit the senate have a deserved reputation for eviscerating such bills so that the US winds up with a bill that's does nothing to actually protect the US border.