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Immigration: Before talking reform, let's talk respect. No law will succeed until employers and workers are convinced that they must obey it or face real penalties.
A significant part of the Republican Party, if not the White House, seems to have grasped an essential truth: Law without enforcement is a sham, and that's exactly what immigration law has been -- and what it will continue to be, if the enforcement problem is not solved.
GOP leaders in the House and Senate have said recently that Congress should pass legislation to put new teeth into immigration law before tackling the question of what to do with the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now here. As Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist put it to The Washington Times last week, enforcement "is a separate issue, but it's one that people understand."
Posted by Richard at October 20, 2005