A few days ago we posted ten year old video of Rudy Giuliani admitting that there's no way we can end illegal immigration in a country like ours without destroying our civil liberties and probably destroying the economy too. That has proved a bit difficult to reconcile with his latter-day pledge to "end illegal immigration" once and for all.

So faced with this awkward contradiction the Giuliani campaign is grasping for an explanation even more laughable and ridiculous than the original contradiction.

According to the Giuliani campaign, all Giuliani meant was that back in 1994 the technology did not yet exist to hermetically seal the gazillion mile border of the United States and end illegal immigration once and for all.

Like I said, some answers amount to such transparently ridiculous bamboozlement that they absolutely guarantee future hilarity.

What technology would it be that Rudy is talking about? The dramatic breakthroughs in electronic fence design? Google maps? Apparently he says it's new breakthroughs in surveillance technology.

What breakthrough technology do you think Rudy's talking about that will allow the United States to "end" illegal immigration once and for all without damaging our civil liberties or affecting our economy, which is what Rudy said it would do back in 1994?