It's the House vs. the Senate on Immigration

There's a big-time war of words between the House and the Senate over the immigration bills which are stirring up the idiotic protests we've seen for the last couple of weeks:

House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws.

"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship.
"Anybody that votes for an amnesty bill deserves to be branded with a scarlet letter A," said Rep. Steve King of Iowa, referring to a guest worker provision in the Senate measure.

This pretty much guarantees that there will not be a bill that satisfies both houses of Congress, which means that once again nothing will be done.

Rather than quibble over guest workers and amnesty and all the peripheral nonsense, why doesn't somebody just introduce a bill to build the wall and get that done. If we control the border and stop the masses coming this way, we'll have time to work on the other issues. Until the border is under control, the problem will just escalate and all the bills in Congress won't fix it.