Say No to Sycophantism

I'll be honest, instead of watching the GW immigration performance live on Monday night, I was watching the season finale of Prison Break. I watched a recording of the speech, and I was disappointed to confirm what I already knew: I didn't miss much. Main points:

1. Deployment of National Guard to the border - further stretching an already-stretched out Guard that is low in numbers and on morale, supplies, and equipment (a lot of which has been left behind in Iraq). Even this radical measure would be justified if it helped ease the situation, but it won't, it's merely a token gesture of pandering to the rapidly growing Michelle Malkin wing of the GOP.

2. Guest worker program - allows for the issuance of temporary guest worker permits, permits upon whose expiration the bearers would be required to go back to their own countries. This kind of program does not address the problem at all. There is one thing that everybody should realize when it comes to the 12 million illegal immigrants already in our country: they are not going to leave voluntarily, temporary work permits or not. Any expectation that illegal immigrants would just pack up and leave at the expiration of their permits is naive at best, and if not naive, presenting it as such to the public is the height of disingenuousness.

As far as preventing further immigrants from crossing over illegally, the only solid solution I can think of is a wall or fence. I know a lot of people think this is a very drastic measure, but we obviously do not have the manpower to guard the entire border, and there is not a single competing practical solution that is on the table.