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For the first time in our history, we have consolidated all border agencies under one roof to make sure they share information and the work is more effective. We're matching all visa applicants against an expanded screening list to identify terrorists and criminals and immigration violators. This month, we have begun using advanced technology to better record and track aliens who enter our country -- and to make sure they leave as scheduled. We have deployed new gamma and x-ray systems to scan cargo and containers and shipments at ports of entry to America. We have significantly expanded the Border Patrol -- with more than a thousand new agents on the borders, and 40 percent greater funding over the last two years. We're working closely with the Canadian and Mexican governments to increase border security. America is acting on a basic belief: our borders should be open to legal travel and honest trade; our borders should be shut and barred tight to criminals, to drug traders, to drug traffickers and to criminals, and to terrorists.

Bush presented a well-thought out incentive program that will help us get a handle on uncontrolled immigration and potential terrorists within our borders. It recognizes reality, does not reward illegal behavior and has political side benefits.

It recognizes reality, does not reward illegal behavior and has political side benefits.

Illegals currently here will have an opportunity to become legal. That sounds like rewarding illegal behavior to me...

Bush presented a well-thought out incentive program that will help us get a handle on uncontrolled immigration and potential terrorists within our borders. It recognizes reality, does not reward illegal behavior and has political side benefits.

wtf?? What is the color of the sky in YOUR world??

" It recognizes reality, does not reward illegal behavior and has political side benefits."

It does not reward illegal behavior? You have got to be kidding me. They broke the law to get here and now they get Social Security benefits which they never paid into because their employers were able to pay them under the table. I just can not believe what I have read on this formerly conservative forum. The RINO's have taken over. Michael Savage is correct. The pubbies will have to lose power to learn the lesson they need. I guess we'll all have to get used to the phrase "President Dean".

"Bush presented a well-thought out incentive program that will help us get a handle on uncontrolled immigration and potential terrorists within our borders. It recognizes reality, does not reward illegal behavior and has political side benefits."

What do you mean it does not reward illegal behavior ? What they get a little fine. Oh boy...so scared.

Reality is that this does nothing to get a handle on illegal immigration. That is talking points. There will still even be a huge number of people who won't even go through that process. Many of them don't want to work. You have to round them up and send them home.