JPod: I think a compromise **is** emerging from all the noise and fog. People want the borders closed. They especially want the southern border closed. You hear this from all over now. Fist-fights only really break out when you discuss the future of the illegals living here. Outside the thin ranks of open-borders dogmatists, though, it’s rapidly getting harder to find anyone who doesn’t want the borders sealed somehow.

A couple of years from now, I think this will have happened, and we’ll be arguing about the other stuff. Personally, I’d like to see all illegals deported; either directly, by just rounding ‘em up, or indirectly, by leaning on employers to stop offering them jobs. It’s nonsense to say this can’t be done. Of course it can, if we want to.

I don’t have high hopes that it WILL be done, though. The victim ideology is too powerful, and the government too incompetent. We shall have secure borders, though, I’m sure. Perhaps even within six years of 9/11…..