A day [ OK, five years] late and more than a few dollars short.

President Bush has found that he can no longer ignore the rapidly growing resistance to his refusal to secure American borders and enforce American immigration and employment laws.

His answer?

Make ’em legal! Sound familiar?

He is back to using the mindless myth that there are jobs Americans refuse to do. There aren’t.

Only wages for which Americans cannot live with dignity in their own country.

” If an employer has a job that no American is willing to take, we need to find a way to fill that demand,” the president said. “

In a radio speech to the nation yesterday, he trotted out the tired argument that willing employers should be allowed to continue to set the wages for the taxpayer subsidized labor to which they have become addicted… Oh, and maybe we should begin to do something to secure our borders.

What a concept.

While the President and the employers have been working together to lower the American wage level to more closely match that of Mexico, it seems that elected officials of state and local governments all over the nation have long since given up on any responsible action from Washington and taken to actually crafting laws that will serve to protect their own.

This from Ohio:

Cracking down on illegal aliens

By Mari Lolli
Hamilton JournalNews

HAMILTON – Less than 24 hours after President Bush announced a national initiative to reduce the numbers of illegal aliens living in the U.S., Butler County officials launched their own initiative Friday to rid the county of undocumented, foreign-born residents.

In a joint press conference, Sheriff Richard K. Jones, county Commissioner Michael Fox and state Rep. Courtney Combs, R-Hamilton, announced a multi-tiered program they said is the first of its kind in the country.

For starters, beginning on Monday Jones will require a declaration of citizenship from all booked into the county jail.

Meanwhile, Combs is drafting new state legislation that will make it a state offense for illegal aliens to cross Ohio’s borders.

And Fox is working on initiatives to discourage employers from hiring illegal aliens.

From here in Marietta, we tip our hat to the brave and resourceful pols in Ohio.

We love this idea:

Other options being considered include giving misdemeanor offenders the option of serving out their sentence while INS processes their deportation papers, or allowing them to forego their sentence if they voluntarily leave the county on a one-way plane ticket the county buys.

Officials said the cost of an airline ticket is cheaper than housing a prisoner for a week or more.

Viva repatriation!

Imagine that, state and county elected offials working together to do the job the President will not do.

What a concept.

Hola! Georgia politicians….there is an election next year here too!