Bush on Illegal Immigration: Mush Made of Straw

A permanent legal resident who joined the Marines doesn't tell us much about 12 million illegals. Even if you say it like 12 million times.

Nobody who matters has called for mass deportation of illegal aliens. Precious few who don't matter have.

High-tech infra-red GPS-triangulating proton-displacement sensors or whatever President Bush has in mind for border protection sounds great. But there's nothing like a wall that says Message: I Care.

Other than that, I loved the speech.

Comments

[Charlie]

I thought his speech was excellent. He articulately laid out arguments for both security and dealing with those immigrants already here. It seemed like his points very closely matched the Hagel-Martinez compromise bill now in the Senate.

[Christopher Fotos]

And coming from Hagel 2008, good to know!