… after the media whirlwind (I’ll be on CNN’s In the Money today and tomorrow, and my Thursday Washington Journal appearance is here):

* Good news: DHS says they’ll announce a new worksite enforcement initiative real soon now (let’s hope it’s not just more hot air).

* Irritating news: The FAA is hampering the Border Patrol’s efforts, touted recently by the president, to use unmanned drones for surveillance (all the more reason to support the creation of a 100-yard-deep “border security zone”; see Sec. 101 of the Duncan Hunter/Virgil Goode immigration bill, HR 4313).

* Bad news: Immigration officials in Houston are ignoring marriage fraud cases. (like in the movie Green Card, except without Andie McDowell and Gerard Depardieu, and no one actually falls in love).

* Worse news: The Homeland Security Department’s Inspector General concludes the agency iisn’t able to do proper background checks on the millions of immigration applicants it has now (let alone 11 million more ilegal al — er, “willing workers”).