[spunkets]

"expansion of the Border Patrol"

Constructing it properly would allow the feds to crack down on the city fathers and PDs that fail to go along with the plan.

"laws already on the books, and empower local police to enfore immigration law, not ignore it?"

For the same reason I would never turn in a hard working person I discovered had the misfortune to be classed as an illegal, there are others doing the same. This allows for a crackdown on the real problem characters.

[Beck_isright]

" Constructing it properly would allow the feds to crack down on the city fathers and PDs that fail to go along with the plan."

You mean like he promised to right after 9-11?

"For the same reason I would never turn in a hard working person I discovered had the misfortune to be classed as an illegal, there are others doing the same. This allows for a crackdown on the real problem characters."

Bunk. The "real problem characters" and the real illegals will never be found. The black market economy in the U.S. exceeds $40 billion per the 2002 IRS estimates. If an illegal makes $30-50K per year tax free, they have NO REASON TO apply for a blue card. What makes you think that someone in their right mind would? You're smoking the pipe dream.