Congressmen and Senators will go back to their districts this week and claim that they “did something” about illegal immigration. In reality, they’ve done nothing. That’s why its a cheap political stunt.

And, while I may agree with some of your points, the one I think is entirely unrealistic is any assertion that deporting every person here illegally will ever happen.

South Korea and the United States are taking a new approach toward North Korea to get talks started again. New approach … same as the old approach, or just redrawing the line in the sand, again? But not to worry,

While I agree we need to fence the whole border, this 700 mile addition to the walls we already have is a good start, and will likely reduce further illegal immigration. The argument has been made that illegals will just tunnel under it or drive over it, but I don’t think anyone who’s seen what the actual thing will look like — double walls of reinforced concrete and steel with a patrol zone between them — thinks tunneling under it will be easy.

Besides, a wall doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective.

So viva el muro! Thanks Congress for giving us this wall.

Now we’ve got to:

**expand the number of cities and towns across the country that are passing Hazleton-like laws making life very tough for illegals to live in their towns (already happening)

**push for more of the border to be walled (likely to happen when certain non-walled-off areas become hotspots)

**change the perverse interpretation of the 14th amendment that gives anyone born here, even illegally, U.S. citizenship

**deport criminal illegal aliens

**crack down on employers who hire illegals

**train local law enforcement in deportation proceedings (already happening, e.g. Herndon and Manassas, Va.)

Once we do these six things — none of which are very expensive or difficult to so — I predict we’d cut our illegal population down from about 18 million (don’t believe that 11.5 million # they’re always throwing out!) to about 4 or 5 million. Then we’ll be a country again. Si se puede!