Today the president asked for nearly four billion dollars to deal with the crisis on the Texas-Mexican border.

Mr. Obama wants to use the money to place more immigration judges at the border, build more detention centers, and hire more border patrol agents.  But throwing money at the problem will not work.

If the president is not going to move the National Guard down there, which would stop people from physically crossing the border, the rest is smoke and mirrors.

Right now anyone can cross and surrender to the Border Patrol because they most likely will be able to stay here.

So why spend four billion dollars when it's not going to do anything?

And what about Mexico? That country is facilitating millions of people walking up to the border. 

President Obama remains silent on that.

Talking Points believes Mr. Obama just wants the problem to go away; he doesn't really want to solve it.

Why? Because his left wing base doesn't want to solve it:

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI  (D-CA):  This crisis, that some call 'a crisis,' we have to view as an opportunity. (EDIT) I'm a mother of five, I have nine grandchildren, I wish I could take all those children home with me. (EDIT) We're all Americans in this hemisphere, North and South America.

So according to Congresswoman Pelosi, we are all Americans in this hemisphere. Therefore all should be allowed to come here. I mean this woman is off the chart loopy.

If Mrs. Pelosi knew anything, which she apparently does not, she would know that the United States cannot absorb millions of uneducated people.

Our welfare system is now strained to the limit; so is the public school system.

Schools in the poor precincts are generally a disaster, and now you're going to add millions of more poor students to a crumbling system?

The basic immigration problem right now is centered in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

According to data collected by the Census Bureau and Homeland Security, almost three million immigrants from those countries have come to the U.S. and 60% are illegal.

Seventy percent of those immigrants cannot speak English very well. About 50% of them lack a high school education, and more than 50% of them use at least one major welfare program once they get here.

So the Obama administration is allowing millions of people to come to America without the skills necessary to compete in the marketplace.

That is creating an underclass: folks who generally will work hard when they get the chance, but because of language and education deficits, are largely consigned to low-paying jobs.

Again, with a debt approaching 18-trillion dollars, the U.S.A. does not have the money to support all these people.

In addition, our infrastructure is declining along with the median incomes of working Americans. And you can't tax working folks anymore.

The unintended consequences of illegal immigration are staggering.

Nancy Pelosi and other liberals ignore the facts, preferring to live in a fantasy world of self-righteousness, attacking those who want immigration law to be enforced and the government run responsibly 

According to all the polls, most Americans do want illegal aliens to be treated fairly -- only the fringe has animus towards them.

People living in corrupt nations are desperate; most understand that. 

But fair-minded Americans also understand that this country is in severe decline, and the president as well as the Democratic Party is largely responsible for that.

I mean it's outrageous to allow a chaotic border situation that harms the entire nation. Is it not? 

And that's the memo.