What in Sam Hill is he up to?

OK lets just start out by assuming that he's going to, probably, be lying. Now, now, I'll admit that doesn't sound very 'bi partisan' of me to say that - but at this point I think you'd have to be a fool not to be at least 'very' suspicious of the motives behind everything George W Bush and his crew do.

So.. lets just assume right off the bat that when he says that his new initiatives are focused on the issue of immigration, and on finding 'a rational middle ground' , then, they undoubtedly have very little to do with immigration and are bound to be both totally irrational and extreme.

With that in mind here's some of the things that 'jump out at me' about this - I'll put links and quotes in later.

1. Ending of something he calls "catch and release" - which I take to mean that he's planning on initiating a program of 'catch and keep indefinitely'.

2. The fact that he mentions that they have 'expanded their facilities' to allow them to end this terrible 'catch and release' thing.

3. The contracts which apparently were awarded by homeland security to KBR aka Halliburton to build huge new internship style camps . Basically big camps with barracks and huge fences and stuff. - To be honest this has been worrying me significantly for quite a while.

3. The fact that the visa waiver form I signed on the way into this country had a newish clause I didn't recognise - something about my waiving my right to appeal against the judgements of the Visa officer.. which lead at the time to a discussion of whether an immigrant had ever had right to a trial in such situations, but, obviously not anymore. I'm not worried about this for myself, especially. Its just an interesting fact to put with the others.

4. All this talk of high technology such unmanned aerial vehicles and biometric identification cards.

5. The fact that he is planning to do a call out of the National Guard, in order to somehow effect this new immigration program. What exactly are they going to be doing, again?

6. The fact that even his loyal Republican crew in the house and senate are balking at that last measure.

7. The idea that, with a 29% approval rating he decides that, now is the time to initiate major initiatives on a hotly contested subject.

Where is he going with this? Exactly.