We've honestly done little to make our borders less porous since 9/11, in spite of the national sentiment to do so. In fact, the President, with his 245(i) Amnesty attempt, almost succeeded in providing incentive for increased Illegal traffic across our border.
So tell me, what are the big picture, war on terror reasons for that lapse?
LOL.
You don't get it Saber. The unwashed such as ourselves will never understand how an immensely intelligent man like GWB operates. All you need to know is that it's all done out of his great patriotism for our own good.
All of this liberal and seemingly wrongheaded legislation he promotes is part of a great master plan to keep us all safe and make way for the great Bush conservative revolution, where he'll finally reveal to us all what a true-blue conservative he really is.
Nothing he does is done for political gamesmanship on the advice of his RINO advisors.
If anything, they've been made more porous. They've issued many of those electronic swipe cards so anyone from Mexico can get across as quickly as you can get in or out of a parking lot that uses swipe cards, Bush is pushing to get trucks from Mexico full access to any part of the US and very few trucks (or cars) are ever checked at the border. Ironically, it's very important to this administration that traffic at the border move very quickly and with no inconvenience at all to the Mexicans who feel like coming over but Americans in airports can suffer all sorts of delays and humiliations. It's hard to understand his priorities.
Well, don't expect the guv-mint to protect you. The citizens are on their own.