Either they are a bunch of wussies or they want to globalize the U.S.

I have been sounding the trumpet about illegal immigration for a long time. Seemingly, little gets done. I am seriously considering joining with The Minute Man Project in a patrol of the southern border for my vacation.

This article just proves exactly what I wrote in my latest column in The Selma News, which will be printed Thursday.

Here are just the first few paragraphs of The New York Times' article.

September 5, 2006
G.O.P. Sets Aside Work on Immigration
By CARL HULSE and RACHEL L. SWARNS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 — As they prepare for a critical pre-election legislative stretch, Congressional Republican leaders have all but abandoned a broad overhaul of immigration laws and instead will concentrate on national security issues they believe play to their political strength.

With Congress reconvening Tuesday after an August break, Republicans in the House and Senate say they will focus on Pentagon and domestic security spending bills, port security legislation and measures that would authorize the administration’s terror surveillance program and create military tribunals to try terror suspects.