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Article: Giving enforcement a chance: before we give up on immigration enforcement--why don't we try it?(PUBLIC POLICY)
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- National Review
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- January 30, 2006
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HERE's a new definition of chutzpah: obstructing immigration enforcement--and then claiming that the huge illegal population is proof the law can't be enforced.
That's what supporters of the various guestworker/amnesty proposals inevitably do. They claim that the United States has tried, but failed, to enforce the immigration laws, so it's time for something new. On its face, this assertion might seem plausible. The illegal-alien population has grown from perhaps 3 million at the end of the last amnesty about 15 years ago to more than 11 million today. Over that same period, the federal government more than doubled the size of the Border Patrol and prohibited the ...