Washington Times Op-Ed
There's confusion in Washington about immigration. President Bush added to it Tuesday when he vowed "to return every single illegal entrant, with no exceptions." We're mildly encouraged by the appearance of the administration's change of heart on immigration control, and we hope it's more than mere appearance. There remains the issue of the president's "temporary" worker program, which would enable illegal aliens to work in this country legally for six years.
On the one hand, supporters of that program insist, as the president did Tuesday, that the number of illegal aliens already here have reached critical mass. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff echoed the president at a Senate hearing Tuesday, saying what is obvious to everyone, that "illegal immigration threatens our communities and national security." Securing our borders from illegal entrants -- whether cheap laborer or slithering terrorist -- should be everybody's chief concern.
Posted by Richard at October 20, 2005