My fantasy was that he would say that he will put 50 thousand armed troops on the border and start building the wall tomorrow....then I could have gotten excited.
We will have a few thousand more border patrol in a few years but the massive waves of illegals will continue to get in.
We only catch one in 5 or one in 10....deport them and they will try again until they get in.
'They will try until they get in' ... or until there is a workable guest worekr and naturalization program which they can avail to save their families from poverty like one sees in Vincente's feudal state of Mexico. And that's why the president laid out a dual objective, not just border enforcement. I'm with AnnaZX, I thought the speech was one of his better ones and it proposed a rational approach, which of course the democraps will quickly derail because they don't want ANY success while Bush is president.