[Miss Marple]

There is a difference between "nothing being done" and nothing YOU like being done. I see what this is: anything the INS does is either ineffective OR, if effective, illegal. You want to castigate the Bush Administration for inactivity, but when I show you activity (and I only skimmed that site) you then say that it isn't fitting your definition of acceptable activity.

I have no more time for this silliness. Write your Congressman and ask him why the INS isn't allowed to fire people, BY LAW.

[angkor]

Write your Congressman and ask him why the INS isn't allowed to fire people

In your ardor for GWB rather than the nation, you assert that the INS patchwork of self-asserted "improvements" represent a substantive change. They do not.

The INS is broken beyond repair, and these inconsequential tweaks do not fix the core problems at the agency (which for the most part are the fault of Congress, and not the people working at INS).

Further, I don't typically write my Congressman or Senators about INS issues. I talk to them, or to their aides. I can assure you that you are the odd man out on this topic.