In today's "no, it's not a joke" news comes the reply that White House spokeswoman Dana Perino gave to this question from Les Kinsolving:

"How will the United States ever develop, adopt and enforce any sort of immigration policy when individual leaders such as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom have vowed to oppose federal enforcement of such laws and, in fact, are preparing to run a sanctuary city that would facilitate illegal activities, as just reported for the San Francisco Chronicle?"

The reply:

"President Bush believes that the laws of this country, including immigration laws, need to be followed."

For those who just flew in from Dubuque, for the past six plus years Bush has been running the U.S. as if it were a sanctuary country. The only thing he'd be concerned about concerning 'Frisco is that such defiance might have an impact on getting the amnesty he wants for the reasons previously discussed.

Perino was also asked about the recent no-confidence vote by Border Patrol agents in BP chief David Aguilar, and her response was that she hadn't seen the resolution, followed by empty blather.