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The President has only the beginnings of control over the INS by virtue of its moving to the new Dept of Homeland Security.

Moving the INS into the DHS provides no more control than he had previously. He is the President and already has all the control he needs. His appointment of and open borders libertarian to run the agency was your first clue to how dedicated he is to controlling immigration.

The first chores are to split off the border patrol from INS so it can be more effective and to get modern computers that can track immigrants. Until these things are done, there is no way to enforce any changes.

Splitting the enforcement side (which the border patrol is only 1/5th) from the service side will not make the enforcement side any more effective. They only way you can make enforcement more effective is to change the current policy and laws. You can split the agency into a million parts, but if the policy and laws does not change, nothing changes.

Also, computers can not track immigrants, and immigrants are not who we need to track. We need to track the illegal alien traffic that flows across the border and the visitors that enter the country legally. It takes more than a computer to do that. And any off the shelf computer can run a data base or system software. We need new officers, new policy and some more high tech equipment on the border. Computers we have enough of.

I spend 10 hrs a day enforcing our immigration laws, and believe me, everything Bush and Company has done is smoke and mirrors to make the average citizen believe that he is cleaning up the mess. Nothing has changed to stop terrorist from entering the country.

As these things are going to take a year, there is going to be no way to show you objectively how "the Bush administration" is doing until then.

Bush could change most everything over night if he wanted to. It’s been over 15 months since 9/11. What is he waiting for? Another attack? Policy change is the stroke of a pen. Bush won’t even pick up the pen.

So, you all are just going to have to stomp your feet and scream yourselves hoarse at every demagogueing article until then.

And your going to sit their in front of your computer denying reality until the next attack.

Most of these article were written with the help of people inside the INS, the people that know what is actually going on. It’s time to wake up sir.