Is the President really going to address illegal immigration or is he just going through the motions?


The Southwestern states REALLY want to know.
From one of my backyard newspapers, Robert Robb writes sense.

There shouldn't be any reason why a credible enforcement regimen couldn't be adopted simultaneously with immigration revisions that allow more immigrant workers than are currently legally permitted but fewer than are currently coming illegally.

Nevertheless, beginning with enforcement is better than doing nothing and leaving the status quo in place. Moreover, the argument that enforcement without increased legal immigration won't work is specious.

Critics claim that enforcement-only has been tried and failed, pointing to the rising number of illegal immigrants despite substantial increases in border enforcement personnel and expenditures.

Even this is only partially accurate. Arizona's problem has been made worse precisely because increased border enforcement in California and Texas has at least partially worked.

The key to enforcement, however, is at the workplace, and no credible argument can be made that workplace enforcement has been even partially tried.

As I have said before, I'm really torn on the illegal immigration problem.

If it were up to me in a perfect world, I would say open all the borders. But we have the Mexican government advocating breaking United States law and giving instructions how to do it. We have heavily armed "coyotes" damaging public and private property. We have a growing radical Hispanic movement in the Southwest US that wants to take Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California back for Mexico. We have a growing problem with criminal Mexican gangs. And I haven't even covered the costs that illegals impose on the infrastructure.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - December 2, 2005 at 08:06 AM  Tag


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