Disagree with the way he did it, and the executive action doesn't go far enough securing our border with Mexico, which makes me hesitant to support the other aspects of the law, which I would otherwise gladly embrace.
The over-emphasis on border security ignores critical enforcement aspects and is part of why we have a bill that throws a bunch of money at the border combined with amnesty and opponents are left having to square "lack of border security" as a justification with a bill that ostensibly includes a lot of border security.
1. You have to secure the border, but you reach a point where further such resources yields diminishing results and as long as the flow is too high, weeding out the terrorists and smugglers becomes impossible and more resources makes less and less of an impact.
2. You have to require e-verify and enforce the work place.
3. I think 40% of illegals are visa overstays, you need a fully funded entry/exit system and you need to enforce aggressively so there is less desire to just overstay.
4. When it comes time to enforce you have to do it. You have to be able to say no to people when yo uset the numbers for legal immigration and you have to being willing to deport people when they come in violation of the law.
People say the system is broken, but the reason it is broken aside from the problems with the legal system is that the enforcement never materializes. Declining to enforce the law becuase the system is broken because of lack of enforcement, therefore can never fix the underlying problem that is the root of the situation, it extends and worsens it.
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