Okay, I've been staying out of this discussion so far, but I wanted to bring up a small point that I hadn't seen mentioned yet. I'm not trying to defend any particular point of view, and I'm not saying that rounding up people of middle-eastern descent is a good thing, BUT...

If I'm not mistaken, didn't our immigration department get reamed rather hard just after 9/11 because some of the terrorists in fact WERE here on expired visas and such?

I mean, we can't go giving them flak for not doing their job, then giving them flak when they try to make up for it. Can we?