I think anyone would agree with you here - That more needs to be done with border security - Though were it seems like we differ (and the President) is that we can do both. It does not have to be a situation like do one first...then the other. To me that is foolishness.
I am not going to get into specifics. But on the whole someone can't just walk into this country with "anything" in their backpack. Nothing is 100% clearly....but on the whole my above statement stands -
Lastly I just find it odd how some are so ready to martyr themselves with the notion we can only do one thing at a time regarding this immigration issue. That somehow we are not capable of doing a systematic reform system. We most certainly are capable and it is exactly what we should be doing.
Again, it is like DEM's always saying "we have to deal with the deficit first....BEFORE we can ever talk about tax-cuts"...that is just silly and economically foolishness.
Illegals can and do walk by my house every day with backpacks, are you saying someone is checking those backpacks and allowing the illegals to continue to enter any way?? I call BS on this!! Smugglers bring vehicles across the border here, are you saying someone is checking out those vehicles for dirty bombs and other weapons and letting drugs and more get through? I will call BS on that too.
You expect me to believe those who enter illegally across the desert and manage to make it in cleanly- which many do every day- are checked along the way- but allowed to continue in anyway- and you call me the one being foolish??
If it was easy to secure this border, it would already be secure. You make it sound like it will be easy to do, so easy we can do several other related tasks at the same time with a lot of the same manpower. If it will be easy to secure the border would you mind explaining why it has not been done?