In order to avoid sending my blood pressure through the roof, I'm not going to quote from the Washington Times interview with our so-called "Borders Czar" Asa Hutchinson. The article is called "Rounding up all illegals 'not realistic'" and it includes a picture of a thoughtful Hutchinson as he presumably ponders ways not to do the job Americans want done.

First of all, very few Americans are suggesting putting illegal aliens on cattle cars. And, most Americans realize that there will always be some illegal aliens. However, we'd like to think that those who run the government are doing their jobs and trying to reduce the flow of illegals as much as possible. Especially since there are politically doable, time-tested ways to do that. The argument presented by our "Borders Czar" is both a false choice and a strawman.

What serious, patriotic Americans are suggesting is that the Bush administration should consider enforcing our laws.

For example, in the first five months of this year, just one company in the whole country was fined for immigration violations. If, say, a thousand companies had been fined, there would be far fewer jobs for illegal workers, and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens would simply deport themselves. There are other measures that could be employed, but just that would work wonders. That would greatly reduce the flow into the U.S., making the job of the Border Patrol much easier.

So, why doesn't the administration do that? The answer is simple: because they don't want to. Can America stand another four years of this administration?

The argument for Bush - seemingly one of the few pro-Bush arguments remaining - is that Kerry would be worse. How exactly could he be worse in this specific case?