Splashed in 48 point font on Drudge, comes the New York Times article "U.S. to Give Border Patrol New Powers to Deport Illegal Aliens":

Citing concerns about terrorists crossing the nation's land borders, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it planned to give border patrol agents sweeping new powers to deport illegal aliens from the frontiers abutting Mexico and Canada without providing the aliens the opportunity to make their case before an immigration judge...

"We recognize that we have to secure [the borders] and that's the president's first principle of immigration reform," Mr. Hutchinson said. "America must secure its borders and this is a part of that effort."

I have one word: bull[bleep!]

Read the three links in the previous post. Seriously, go read them. Then, tell me whether the Bush administration takes illegal immigration and border security seriously. A certain number of people might believe what the Bush administration says on this issue, but that number is shrinking each day.