Today Giuliani toured the border.

That’s nice, but I would have preferred if he had taken a page from the book of Raj Peter Bhakta, who rode an elephant across the Rio Grande to demonstrate the state of border security. His bid for Congress last year fell short, but you have to love the guy’s flair for the dramatic.

UPDATE: A rival sees Giuliani visiting the border and feels it is time to remind folks of his comment, “we’re never going to totally control immigration,” from a speech in 1996.

“…with some degree of wisdom, come to the following perspective…We’re never ever going to be able to totally control immigration to a country that is as large as ours, that has borders that are as diverse as the borders of the United States. And that as a society that wants to be a country that values freedom. That values the freedom of movement; freedom to do business. If you were to totally control immigration into the United States, totally control the flow of people into the United States, you might very well destroy the economy of the United States because you’d have to inspect everything and everyone in every way possible. I don’t know if there is any technological way to totally control it. There is no doubt that much better ways to get more of a reasonable degree of assurance about who is coming in, to get more control over it. You’re never going to totally control it. So we have to just accept that if we want to be the kind of country we are.”

Yes, because no one’s position on the importance of controlling the border has changed at all since 1996.