Chertoff: "Bowing to Reality." ???

Today, I fired off an email to Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary:

Secretary Chertoff,

I read in a Reuters column that you said the following with reference to the Senate Immigration Reform bill:

"We are bowing to reality..."

The real reality is that you and President Bush have been derelict in your duty to close our borders and enforce the laws already on the books.

No one, sir, is fooled by this kind of rhetoric. Most of my friends agree that this administration has utterly failed us in this area. In a different historical setting, you would be forced to resign from office, and the president would be impeached.

Respectfully,

Mark W. Weaver