There were over 900,000 apprehensions at the SW border in fiscal 2003...you call that no effort?
It's truly amazing to me that all you immigration fanatics crap on all the men and women who risk their lives daily doing the job you claim is not being done.
You all are below contempt.
Obviously, it is not working. The 2002 Census said there are 8.7 million illegal aliens in the US. It has estimated that 200,000 illegals enter the US through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument every year.
The man arrested in NC 2 weeks ago filming financial institutions was an illegal alien. If al Qaeda is trying to attack this nation, they will do it by crossing our borders undetected. The Canadian border has one agent per how many thousand miles? I saw an interview the other night of a woman who sneaks into the US every day. If she is caught, she crosses again about an hour later.
The US is capable of protecting its borders. I have seen it work with about 100% effectiveness, and I have lived in it. But the inadequacies of the system are being ignored.
BTW, I am not an immigration fanatic. But as I said in the initial post, some upcoming terrorist attack will involve people who came in across our borders unimpeded, and the Republican administration will be unable to defend itself from the democRat attacks.
You all are below contempt.
If Americans failed to sound the alarm, THAT would be below contempt.