They needed a study for this?

Any good American could have told them this, without all the wasted money. Is it really that much of a surprise?

AP: Study: U.S. Needs to Improve Immigration Enforcement---

WASHINGTON — The government has to do a better job of tracking down visitors to the United States who violate their visas, including identifying scofflaws faster, a Department of Homeland Security (search) report said Friday.

The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (search) made only 671 apprehensions in 2004 after receiving 301,046 leads of possible violations, said the report from the department's inspector general. The leads, most of which come from national computer databases that track foreign students and other visitors, often don't have enough information, the report said.

One of the broadest data sources, for example — theUS-VISIT (search) program, which fingerprints and photographs foreigners when they enter the United States — only tracks departures through some ports. So the US-VISIT data does not distinguish between people who are overstaying their visas and those who left through a port that did not document their departure, the report said.

Last summer, a study by a private group that favors stricter immigration policies found that at least 94 foreign-born visitors accused of terror activity between 1993 and 2004 exploited federal immigration laws to enter or remain in the United States.

How can we be safe if we haven't got protected borders? Anyone could already be in the country. For all we know, Osama bin Laden is here.

The President needs to address this with something better than his guest workers program. I suggest he begin by listening to people like the Minutemen. They aren't vigilantes; they are patriots.