There will still be a significant level of border enforcement and as we saw this past year, there are some cracks showing up on interior enforcement/Real ID
Let me toot my horn and say, as I predicted in 04 and 05, the left leaners and the right leaners are now exhibiting remorse that they scoffed at the Bush Plan. Too late now.
What do you classify as "permanent" visas?
There will still be a significant level of border enforcement and as we saw this past year, there are some cracks showing up on interior enforcement/Real ID
Lots of show, little improvement. We still haven't fully implemented the US Visit Program. We lack a system to track and deport visa overstays, the source of about one-third of our illegals. Our borders remain open even though the Administration lacks to tout the fact that we are apprehending over a million illegals a year trying to enter. That works out to more than 80,000 a month coming across the border, which sounds like an invasion. And another 500,000 to one million make it across.
If this country suffers another 9/11 scale attack and it is discovered that the perpetrators were smuggled across the border or if they are visa overstays [like 4 of the 19 9/11 hijackers], the buck will stop in the WH. Our national security is being compromised yet there is no sense of urgency in securing our borders. Why?
Let me toot my horn and say, as I predicted in 04 and 05, the left leaners and the right leaners are now exhibiting remorse that they scoffed at the Bush Plan. Too late now.
The so-called Bush Plan was a disaster. It would have destroyed this country. The WH turned its back on the House passed enforcement bill in 2005-6. If the WH had supported it, we would be much better off now. Congress and the WH are learning to their dismay that is where the American people are. The worse the problem gets, the more Congress will come around. I have no idea about who is expressing remorse that the 2007 Senate bill was not passed given its 26% public approval level.