Here's an opinion piece on immigration from today's Denver Post [December 1, 2005, "Immigration reform trips Bush"]. Linda Chavez writes, "President Bush is deeply committed to immigration reform, an issue on which he clearly hoped to establish a lasting legacy when he came into office five years ago. As the former governor of a border state, Bush had real-world experience dealing with the flow of immigrants into this country - legal and illegal - and recognized both the benefits and challenges these groups present...Mass deportations won't - and shouldn't - happen. The legal, moral and practical obstacles to rounding up and deporting millions of illegal aliens and their U.S.-citizen children are insurmountable. Nor is it feasible to station enough agents along the border or build a barrier long and high enough to keep out everyone. I once stood at the border between East and West Germany with its barbed wire, mines, and sentry posts with soldiers aiming high-powered rifles. Is that really the America we want to create?"
Tina Griego weighs in on immigration in her column in today's Rocky Mountain News [December 1, 2005, "Griego: The naivete of Bush's immigration plan"]. She writes, "...one of the well-documented paradoxes of tighter border security combined with stiffer consequences and a scarcity of means to gain legal entry. It encouraged once-migratory people to stay here, to send for their families, to sink roots. An already complicated problem became more so. Spanish-speaking enclaves and businesses multiplied. It has become impossible to talk about illegal immigration without bringing up assimilation."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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