but more importantly strengthen enforcement. Let’s face it, the border is huge, and there is no way the government can stop illegals from coming in any more than they can stop drugs from coming in.

We need to decide as a nation whether we require legal immigration or not. It seems to me that most Democrats and Republicans have no desire to ask this question or to hear the answer.

George W Bush had no interest in confronting illegal immigration or hyper-immigration. He thought he had a “special relationship” with Mexico, not Great Britain. He did learn fast that he was wrong, but he had no answers.

We are a nation of immigrants that is true. But we WERE also a nation of 4th, 5th, and 6th generation immigrants that wanted nothing more to be just Americans. Now we have politicians that are afraid to even discuss the issue. They don’t even want to engage the American public, we are basically out of the equation.

I have been consistent on immigration. We need to make immigration a privilege. We need to allow those that help our nation come in and we need to be equitable about it. There is no sound reason why Mexico should have more immigrants than England. And if they do, it should be because more Mexicans want to be part of America.

The biggest story about immigration is not the border policing, nor internal enforcement. The biggest story is that our nation has had no dialogue on the issue at all, and from what I can tell it never will.

I remember way back in 1993 or 1994 visiting Arizona for the first time to see me dad. At that point, I didn’t follow politics at all. However, I remember him talking to me about the problems Arizona and California were having with illegal immigration and how women would purposely cross the border into the US just to have babies so they would receive benefits from the US as American citizens. He explained to me that these women didn’t pay for these services as the hospitals were obligated by law to provide for these women and their babies.

I knew this couldn’t work forever for America. And I truly believe that is why California is in so much trouble financially (and for many other reasons as well). I now live in Texas and I know the amount we pay to school illegal immigrants, as well for their other services.

Oh, and let’s give them mortgages, too, that they cannot pay back.

It’s been a recipe for disaster and will remain so unless something changes.

Obama also had 63% approval rating when he entered office…. polls mean crap.