[fastdraw]

I should add that several attempts have already been made to upgrade federal systems, and most have ended in failure. In the 90's, the FAA wasted a billion dollars or so trying in vain to redesign its air traffic control systems. The IRS still "loses" several billion dollars per year, cannot pass even the most cursory financial audits, and will not be able to for the foreseeable future.

And you expect miracles from the INS?!?!?!? WHY????

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

You might have a point if the INS were actually attempting to do the job they were created to do, but they are not even making the attempt, for political reasons. Let's untie their hands before we write them off altogether. Your argument seems to be that because some government agencies are badly run, ergo they all must be badly run, so let's get rid of them all and have anarchy instead! Fine; we'll just funnel all the illegals to your property. You feed and clothe them, since "our" government is "obviously" incompetent "by its very nature" to enforce our laws or defend our borders, even though it had no problem doing this, in an efficient manner, 50 years ago. Now, did the nature of government change in the past 50 years, to make the INS incompetent, or was it the government's hidden agenda (re: immigration) which changed?