"Despite the hysterical charges by fringe groups that President Bush, Senator McCain and Senator Kennedy seek 'open borders' that would flood the nation with some 100 million new immigrants, no participant in recent Congressional debates has advocated such a radical, suicidal course."
Medved can try to spin this as he likes, but we in fact have had "open borders" for years, and continue to have them. No amount of legislation will change that; we will have to replace the current open-borders internationalist with a president who is concerned with our sovereignty before there will be anything other than window-dressing action on our southern border.
The borders should have been closed on Mr. Bush's first day in office, with an accompanying message that Clinton was derelict in his duty not to enforce our borders. Bush's failure to do so then, and particularly after 9/11, has had tragic consequences for this country.
Bush has been a huge failure on border security and national sovereignty.
I think Bush is trying to correct that problem now with legislation that will work.