President Bush has today signed the bill to create a 700 mile fence along our southern border.  But unless it gets properly funded, it will never be built:

But the new fence at the centerpiece of the Secure Borders Act may never be built, as only a portion of the necessary funding has been approved. Estimates for more than 1,000 kilometers of fence range from $6 billion to $8 billion. Congress has so far approved just over $1 billion for a fence that would cover nearly one-third of America's border with Mexico.

As always, those in opposition to the US protecting its own interests are drawing false similes:

Mexican President Vicente Fox who called it shameful and compared it to the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall imprisoned people within.   

As for the other illegal immigrant proposals that have been discussed this year:

President Bush says he intends to press ahead with the temporary worker plan after next month's elections.

I personally don't mind a temporary worker program provided it Bush is sincere when he says:

They should not be given an automatic path to citizenship," explained Mr. Bush.  "That is amnesty. I oppose amnesty. There is a rational middle ground between granting an automatic path to citizenship for every illegal immigrant and a program of mass deportation.

They are here, we are not going to load them on to cattle cars and ship them home so anything we can realistically do to get them on the books and then force kick them out after their visa is up is fine to me.