Good News, America! Border To Be Secured…By 2011!

How hard can this really be, folks?

When asked by Cybercast News Service if the border will be secure by the end of the Bush administration, Chertoff was upbeat but implied that finishing the job will fall to the next president of the United States.

“I think we will have made a dramatic amount of progress,” he said. “I think if we continue on the course we’ve set now we can get the border secure … sometime in 2011.”

Uh, what? 2011? You guys are just trying to secure the border? Not curing cancer or creating anti-matter? For crying out loud, Roosevelt won World War II in less time than it has taken you clowns to close down OUR borders!

Back in February, Pat Buchanan wrote:

Securing a border is not that difficult. In 1954, President Eisenhower sent an Army general to Texas to do it. He began repatriating thousands of Mexicans and had the situation in hand within a year. Along the San Diego corridor, a crude fence of corrugated steel matting from U.S. airfields in Vietnam has stopped illegal trucks from crossing, cut back 90 percent on the illegal alien traffic, and virtually eliminated murders and assaults in the border area.

Measures taken lately at the state and federal level, though grudgingly by the administration, have begun to bear fruit.

After Arizonans voted to cut off all social benefits to residents who could not prove they were in the country legally came reports of people pulling their kids out of public schools and leaving the state.

From the border come reports that added Border Patrol agents have reduced the number of illegal aliens apprehended, suggesting word has gone out south of the border that it is no longer so easy to walk in. And deportations of criminal aliens, long demanded, is actually going up.

Let it be said: Our border can be secured; the illegal aliens can be sent home; the magnets that draw them here can be turned off. This crisis can be resolved if the courage and will are there. Unfortunately, we have a government that does not seem to care and probable nominees neither of whom is committed in his heart to doing it.

So, which candidate for president in going to finish this program in 2011? Obama or McCain?

You know the answer as well as I do: neither.