All the King's men

How many men does it take to lock lock the barn after the the horse is out?

President Bush, trying to build support for a major overhaul of the nation's tattered immigration laws, said Monday night he would order as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to secure the U.S. border with Mexico and urged Congress to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship.

A band-aid on an arterial bleed?