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You know that I like him, shield, but I think you'd have to say he's weak on illegals. With the DREAM Act and in state tuition for illegals, with his emphasis on the criminal border problems rather than all crossings, with the continuation of bi-lingual education (not his fault entirely, but he has made no effort to eliminate the failed concept from our schools and our society) and universal access to our public schools by illegals, his support of a ID system for illegals to allow them to work, it falls far short of the zero-tolerance most of us believe is necessary to curtail illegal immigration.

As I have stated, it may be that we have reached the point at which those are the necessary concessions we must make to make what is essentially a silk purse out of this sow's ear, but it is bitter on the palate.

It was tried once before under Reagan and it gave us what we have today.

Eisenhower's solution may have been less compassionate and less politically correct, but it was very successful in driving illegals out of America with relatively few actual arrests.