It could also be that your analysis is simplistic. If the US suddenly got serious about enforcing its immigration laws and actually started arresting illegal aliens and processing them for deportation, many of the illegals would be given the option to leave on their own. Many would when considering the alternative of forced deportation and long terms of incarceration while awaiting their deportation hearings. Many others would leave because their whole premise of coming and staying was based on the belief that they could get away with breaking the law without being arrested and that would no longer be true.

But the part of your statement which misses the point you attempted to make was in fact the assumption that we should not enforce our laws because the logistics are daunting. We just sent several hundred thousand US troops to Iraq and Afghanistan along with weapons, supplies, and other systems and equipment with what looks now as relative ease. It does not look undoable to those who provided the logistics on that operation. And we don’t have to open up long supply lines to support the deportees either.

Bottom line is that we either should enforce the immigration laws or repeal them. I do not support repealing them, so all we have left is to enforce them.

Your deportation scheme has a minor flaw. There are estimates of up to 11 million illegals here now. How do you propose to round them all up, detain them, have INS process them and actually get them back across the border? That’s 220,000 busloads at 50 per bus. Meantime you’re trying to seal the border against new entrants. Regards

If Kerry were really serious, he is a Senator, he would sponser a bill and announce it on the Senate floor, to build a wall across the 1,930 border.
Then he would go down to the border and symbolicly shovel the first dirt to start to build the wall.
You KNOW HE IS LYING. So why do you praise him, give him honor?
Bush will go to the right and after the election, BREAK HIS PROMISE.
And you encourge this by praise.
AND IT IS EXACTLY THIS PROMISES THAT ARE BROKEN IS WHY SO MANY AMERICANS HAVE NO FAITH IN ANY GOVERNMENT AT ALL.

Anyone who takes any promise, in regards to fiscal discpline or immigration, by Bush or Kerry is a fool.

In this column Ms. Malkin, you blew out a candle.
sincerely, former Republican, now half and half Libertarian,(domestic yes, foreign no)
Terry Josiah

Kerry spokesman David Wade said Wednesday that Kerry thinks it is a state responsibility to decide who gets a driver’s license. Wade said Kerry would not support any federal efforts to stop states from giving them to illegal immigrants.

So Kerry has an opinion, but no intention of turning that opinion into law.

“The disappointing jobs report suggests the economy is cooling, making life easier for the Fed but harder for Bush’s campaign.”

If you read the article, you’ll see that every economist and analyst quoted said the report was good news. They cited the fact that the numbers represent steady growth, and in fact the Fed may not need to raise rates again in the short term. This is good news for all of us.

So how does MSNBC manage to take a positive story on the US economy, and state in the headline that this is bad news for Bush? The implication is that Bush’s economy is now faltering, despite the fact that the news is clearly good, if not quite as good as analysts had expected. If the extreme bias of CNN and MSNBC wasn’t evident before, this little example sealed the deal for me. These news outlets are not merely distributors of news, they are passively campaigning for John Kerry. The sad part is that most of the readers of those sites aren’t even aware of the bias.

I may well have my wires crossed here, but I recall reading elsewhere, perhaps yesterday, that Kerry has already said much the opposite in yet another speech to yet another audience. Even if not, I very much doubt that this little hat-trick is going to convince anyone who has been watching that John Forbes Kerry is anything other than exactly what he looks, sounds and smells to be.

When W does something boneheaded we all blame Karl Rove anyway, when will Bush get it through his head that piecemeal pandering does NOT work for Republicans. He would do so much better with hispanics (who are as diverse a group as it gets) by bypassing the usual suspects and appealing to the same values and aspirations as most americans. Everything I have read that deals with the subject in detail states that hispanics (for the most part) are social conservatives and believers in free market capitalism. Unlike our african-american brothers and sisters they tend not to be the beneficiaries of decades of pavlovian mental conditioning pull the “D” lever for massa’ no matter what.

Those groups that loudly claim to speak for them do not share their values. For instance, I have it on good authority that both La Raza and MALDEF were conjured into existence in 1969 with Ford Foundation money and have been sustained with it ever since. Like so many other lefty minority organs; they may have the Main Stream Media at their beck-and-call but when it comes time to put warm bodies in the street they turn out to be paper tigers. Does anyone remember Martha Burk and the Battle of Augusta? With the entire old-line feminist establishment behind her and the NYT in her hip pocket she could barely gather a handful of demonstrators (not counting the “Iron My Shirt” guy). I as well recall Ward Connerly’s editorial in The Wall Street Journal last year of attending the annual NAACP gathering and reporting that the attendees were almost exclusively middle-aged government employees.

Some say that hispanics are knee-jerkedly in favor of unrestricted immigration, but others say hispanic citizens and legal residents know damn well who’s keeping their wages down and why the public health system in the Southwest is collapsing and who is filling up the jails and penitentiaries. I confess I haven’t read “Mexifornia” yet but common sense would tell most people that a two-tier society cannot stand.

p.s. I keep your immortal saying framed above my desk: “Capitol Hill is where Abercrombie & Fitch meets the hair club for men.” Hee! Hee!