Although the vote was much closer than anyone expected, the immigration bill is still DEAD. Providing amnesty is simply not the answer. But rounding up 12 million illegals and shipping them home is also impossible. If we could round them up, we would have already. The only real solution is to place stiff and severe penalties on the employers of illegal immigrants. Without the prospect of a job, they won’t be as anxious to break the law to come here. It’s simple supply and demand.

A fence isn’t going to stop them.  More advanced intrusion detection technology might. But what about our northern border? Granted the Canadians don’t have nearly as much desire to come here illegally but it seems to me that any terrorist who wanted to walk into this country could do so in a heartbeat thru the canadian border. Why is this never discussed? Why don’t we have a plan to protect all of our borders? The foolishness just never ends…

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