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

You are naive, my friend. It is rare that a FR posts has as many fallacies in one short post.

The primary goal of the Bush administration "reforms" is to get contracts for their friends. Sorry, but that is the simple truth. The Federal bureaucracy is not going to be reformed or fixed in one year or five years or ten years. Twenty years? Maybe--if we have five consecutive Presidents who make it their highest priority. The likelihood of that is very very low.

The next fallacy of your post is the notion that bad policy can be fixed by good implementation. There is only one good immigration policy at this time in our history when for the past twenty years we have been faced with one million legal and a half million illegal immigrants a year. That policy must be a total freeze. No immigration for ten years. None. Nada. Zilch.

Then we probably could cut immigration down by half (in the real world) while W fiddled with bureaucratic reorganization and awarded contracts to his friends.

Some day we might actually get a President who actually wanted to stop immigration and then they would throw away the computers and start defending the borders and shooting on sight anything that tries to cross illegal entry points.

The primary goal of the Bush administration "reforms" is to get contracts for their friends.

You've made a serious charge, so I expect you to back it up or I can only consider you to be libelous (not merely naive as you accuse me of being).

So, document all the friends (specific names only accepted) and the contracts (specific terms and dates and why the friend wasn't qualified to handle it) that President Bush doled out to his "friends."