Yes, and the prima facie evidence of its dishonesty is the ramrodding of last week's 245(i); the purported "shock" that INS delivered a visa six months late (coupled with his campaign promises of 2000 to make the INS deliver its services in a timely fashion); Ashcroft's seeming surprise that the worst agency in the United States government - and one over which he has oversight duties - is not up to snuff; and the insane joke of discussing anything about immigration policy while ignoring the desperate - and I do mean desperate - straits of the INS.
There has not been a single remedy applied to INS and its problems since January 2001. Not one. But GWB is content to feed it with thousands and perhaps millions of additional cases while the agency implodes. Why? It makes no sense.
On this issue GWB is either (a) completely out of touch with reality or (b) lying through his teeth.
Both!!