The Potemkin Immigration plan

Chertoff and his top assistant, the people to whom the border patrol reports, reveal the hollowness and political nature of the president's plan. (From this morning's DHS press conference whose sole purpose was to outline the President's plan.)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY McHALE: . . .We don't know how many helicopters we're going to put up, but we know to a near certainty that we'll have helicopters. . . We don't know where we will place censors to detect illegal movement, but it's almost a certainty that we will have censors. . . We don't know how many barriers or roads we're going to build, but clearly, we will be putting new barriers in place, and clearly, we will be building new roads . . . So your question, sir, is a fair one.