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Which Way for U.S. Immigration?: It's Time to Stop the Flood |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Marl Krikorian |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 1,764 Words, 11,054 Characters |
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The week before the September 11 attacks, Mexican President Vicente Fox visited Washington and called for an amnesty for the three to four million Mexican illegal aliens in the United States. President George W. Bush, employing various euphemisms, had already proposed such an amnesty, while Democrats in Congress outbid the president by demanding amnesty for all seven to eight million illegal immigrants, wherever they were from.
Support for amnesty was widespread even among some elements of the Right. In a wire story filed only hours before the attacks, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and Dan Griswold of the Cato Institute called for a "wide-reaching migration program" to give legal status to illegal workers.
It seemed that some form of amnesty was a foregone conclusion. Then, 19 foreign hijackers, perhaps half of them illegal aliens, changed the debate over immigration policy.
Suddenly, embracing millions of noncitizens living here without permission didn't seem like such a good idea. Indeed, new immigration measures have been proposed almost every day since the...
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... the potential economic dislocation caused by such a policy would be minimal, since there is no possibility that all illegals will magically disappear overnight. This approach would have the desirable effect of increasing wages for the poor, spurring productivity gains, protecting American sovereignty, and safeguarding our constitutional democracy. An amnesty can achieve none of these ends.
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