National Review Online
By Byron York

When George W. Bush visited the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma Station Headquarters in Arizona on Monday — for the second time in a year — his message on illegal immigration sounded a bit tougher than in the past. "Illegal immigration is a serious problem — you know it better than anybody," he told a group of border agents. "It puts pressure on the public schools and the hospitals, not only here in our border states, but states around the country. It drains the state and local budgets … Incarceration of criminals who are here illegally strains the Arizona budget. But there's a lot of other ways it strains the local and state budgets. It brings crime to our communities."

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