Spot on!
The amount of tax dollars being consumed by illegal aliens is monumental. Whether through the use of social saftey nets or public education or the public infrastructure the expenditures are in the billions, not millions.
These problems are absolutely acute in the desert southwest and are substantial in all geographic regions of this country.
The remedies are simple and cost little. The savings these simple remedies generate would be more than sufficient to finance the more agressive remedies proposed by this author and others.
President Bush seriously underestimates the visceral reaction to the political pandering he's employing to broading his base through minority sympathy. I hope that his selfserving promotions do not cost the conservative movement the foothold on American politics that we've gained in the last 6 years.
EBUCK