We'll guard that border, after it's gone; or, Bush admits the whole thing is a fraud By Lawrence Auster

Critics of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill have been saying that the supposed enforcement triggers that must occur before illegal aliens are legalized are a fraud, for several reasons: (1) The illegals get the provisional Z visa instantly, and once they are legalized it is inconceivable they will be "illegalized" again; (2) the enforcement triggers don't represent actual numbers of illegal aliens apprehended, but only increased spending, increased Border Patrol agents, new fences, and other facilities, in other words, the triggers are only intentions, not achievements; and (3) after the legalization has occurred, the enforcement measures, such as they are, will be inevitably neglected, as has happened with the 1986 amnesty; and this is even more surely the case in the event a Democrat is elected in 2008.
All that is very bad. But it's worse than that. Much worse.

In a statement last Saturday at a briefing on the immigration bill, President Bush made it clear that he has no intention to secure the border prior to legalizing all present illegals as well as all future prospective illegals. I realize that sounds like a paradoxical statement, but be patient while I explain. First, here is what Bush said:

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