At 05:21 PM 12/31/2003 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>Almost a month after Ortiz was arrested, Homeland Security Secretary
>Tom Ridge said: "The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to
>grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some
>kind of legal status some way, but also as a country decide what our
>immigration policy is and then enforce it."
>
>No, Mr. Secretary. We already have immigration laws. It's your duty to
>enforce them. If the arrest of a Mexican diplomat for helping to
>smuggle Arabs into the U.S. can't convince you of the need for that,
>what will?
Actually, Ridge is right. If the US were to somehow manage to enforce
its immigration laws and remove 8 to 12 million workers from our economy -
the effects on the US would be catastrophic.
As a nation, we need to come to grips to reconciling our immigration and
economic policies.
JDG
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"The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
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