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Mr. Williams seems more knowledgeable and/or honest than Mr. Tancredo.

But Johnny Williams, who heads field operations for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that incursions along the border are inevitable given the tense situation. Some degree of corruption on both sides may be unavoidable.

"Vicente Fox has done a good job in rooting out corruption," Mr. Williams said. "I would not discount the fact that with thousands of officers on both sides, there may be someone in uniform doing something wrong."

Johnny Williams is my boss. He is one of the reasons the Border is such a mess. He is one of the people that has taken away the M-4's from Border Patrol Agents so they can't defend themselves in these types of situations. Johnny is a coward.

Mr. Williams seems more knowledgeable and/or honest than Mr. Tancredo.

Unfortunately, Mr. Williams is a major reason for the lack of enforcement on the border. In any INS restructuring, he must be one of the first to go. Just ask anyone in BP.

The administrations of both countries enjoy a level of raport seldom before achieved, and the person who works the area on a daily basis turns in a candid and level-headed report on the situation. However, we are asked to believe that Señor Tancredo, after casually visiting the area for a few hours (if that long), and who is on an obvious personal mission of pandering for the votes of people who are truly concerned about the border situation, has magically defined the problem, and divined not only the true intentions of the soldiers, but can also tell that they were in fact not lost.

Dionne warwick just landed in jail in Miami for trying to sneak a few joints through in her lipstick case. Looks like the Psychic Friends Network needs a new spokeperson, and Tancredo appears to be far more qualified than Dionne...after all, she should have known not to try and sneak the doobies through, and he can, by looking out the window of an air-conditioned SUV, divine what went on in the border days and weeks before.