Report Urges Troops be Sent to the Border

This is good or bad, depending on how you look at it. It's bad because the report shows how totally screwed-up the Mexican border situation is:

"The tide of illegal crossings on the borders of the United States is beyond unsatisfactory; it is catastrophic. It does not ebb and flow — it only grows. It is rising without measure and eroding the very fiber of our safety, life and culture," the report said.

"As we wage the war on terror in foreign lands, we have all our doors and windows open at home. ... The insanity of such a policy, or silent toleration of such a policy is almost criminal in itself," it said.

It's good because it offers solutions to the problem, and that maybe there's hope. Maybe:

The deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops or state militia on the U.S.-Mexico border would stop the illegal flow of foreigners into America, says a congressional report that credits the Minuteman Project with proving that additional manpower could 'dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate' illegal immigration.

Gee, ya think? They didn't need a report from a committee to confirm what millions of Americans already know. All they had to do was listen to us. Maybe, though, they issued this report because somebody besides Tom Tancredo finally DID listen. Now, the question is, will anybody act on the recommendations offered in this report? Only time will tell, but I'm not holding my breath. The final solution rests not in the hands of government, but in the hands of the American people, one way or another.