Illegals frustrating small-town cops

There's no doubt in my mind this frustration and lack of cooperation - is happening all over the United States. This could end up being the hot button issue that costs the Republican party the White House in 2008. Even though, I don't believe the Democrats are any more serious about this issue than the Republicans, they will use this issue as part of their presidential campaign platform and could sway enough voters (that they are serious about border control) to tip the scale in their favor.

Hillary, for example, is talking "tough" on this issue while she tries to reinvent herself as a moderate. Meanwhile, President Bush is laying landmines for the GOP with his inept handling of this matter.

Iowa police chief can't get federal agency to respond to calls for help.

Marshalltown, March 25th, 2005 - On Wednesday we told you about an immigrant smuggling bust in Colfax. Police found fourteen suspected illegal immigrants packed in a van and turned them over to immigration officials. Colfax police say so far this year they've brought in more than sixty illegal immigrants but they had to release about twenty of them because federal officials wouldn't take them into custody."