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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Joe Lynch" |
| Date: |
06 Jan 2004 03:18:44 PM |
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IMMIGRATION PACKAGE MAKES BAD POLICY WORSE |
IMMIGRATION PACKAGE MAKES BAD POLICY WORSE
Complete article at:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/osullivan/cst-edt-osul06.html
Bush's immigration package makes bad policy worse
In comedy, when you see a man walking straight toward an open
trapdoor, his eyes fixed on the far horizon, you laugh. In politics,
when you see the same thing, you wonder why. Just now President Bush
is striding three-quarters of the way to `open borders` immigration
policy.
Even on its own terms, Bush's plan is full of holes. Experience from
Germany to California shows `guest-worker` programs invariably
increase illegal immigration since they create welcoming cultural
enclaves of foreign nationals into which the `illegals` promptly
vanish without a trace. Amnesties also encourage illegal immigration
by sending the message that if an `undocumented worker` makes it over
the border, he will eventually be granted legal status. And what
exactly is the point of stricter border controls if you admit anyone
willing to work -- temporarily -- for starvation wages? Surely not
even Republican congressmen are likely to be deceived by such a
''palatable" absurdity.
All in all the effect of such reforms will be to increase legal and
illegal immigration massively. This in turn will foster an underworld
of American life in which the authorities -- despite the palatable
cosmetic of better border technology --are unable to keep track of who
is in the country and for what reason. It hardly needs pointing out
that such an underworld would be an ideal environment of night and fog
for the terrorists to move about in.
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