Since border crossing apprehensions are down 40 percent under Bush I will take this mongering with a grain of salt.
What are you smoking? Apprehensions are down under the Bush administration because Bush quit enforcing the laws. At this time US citizens can place the blame squarely on Bush's shoulders for our failings in this farce.
My guess is that if Bush loses the coming election it will be principally do to his policy on immigration. Bush's January 9 policy is simply obscene and the US public knows it. It weakens his credibility on all other issues.
Bush did not cause the decrease in apprehensions, Al Quada did.
Apprehensions were up 7% in Bush's first 9 months, then 9/11 happened and people got scared and did not come to the US. As that fear eases, the number will increase again.
No new immigration enforcement policy went into effect until 09/11/2002. By then, apprehensions were already down 25%. We had another large drop in 2002 and only a 3% drop in 2003. I’ll bet 2004 shows an increase.
Most of the new policies went into effect in 2003, and that is the year that the decreased nearly stopped.
Also, just because apprehensions are down, does not necessarily mean there is also a decrease in illegal border crossing. Apprehensions are just the only semi reliable means of estimating illegal entries.
Even if we assume that a percent decrease in apprehensions means and equal percent decrease in illegal entries then we can also assume that the apprehension ratio is the same and approximately 2.7 million illegals still got past the Border Patrol in 2003.
Under Bush’s watch, there have been 4,714,270 apprehensions. Being nice, I’ll use a 33% apprehension rate.
Approximately 9,428,540 illegal aliens have snuck into the US under Bush’s watch.
Do not send this juvenile rhetoric to my private mailbox again.
I you don't have the courage of your convictions to state you case publicly then keep your opinions private.