So the Senate rejected the White House's immigration bill. I am not surprised. We need to do only one thing in an immigration bill: secure the border. As long as we continue to fool around with worthless debate about a path to citizenship or the process for a guest-worker program or workplace enforcement we will never get anywhere. This is one subject in which the details are killing us. It seems that if a single Senator doesn't like one feature from among the thousands of details in the bill then the whole shmegege deal gets derailed.

Among other things, I own a jewelry store. Before I call my insurance company and ask for coverage, before I hire employees, before I open the door for business, before I do anything at all, I secure my jewelry. I use T-30 Safes that take more than 30 hours to open with a thermal lance, I have motion detectors installed underneath them, I have radio alarms (so no wires to cut) that call the police, I have the alarm company called whenever the safes are opened and they have two passwords - one that calls the police and one that tells them everything is OK, I have panic buttons, night vision cameras, motion detectors, Internet access, and a few security measures that if I told them to you, I'd have to kill you. So before I even start business - I secure my jewelry.