THE IRRATIONAL IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
"Isn't it amazing a nation built on the minds and muscle of immigrants has no coherent policy to deal with what may now be close to the top of its most pressing problems — immigration? For decades, interpreting laws dealing with aliens was left up to a thoroughly discredited agency, the Justice Department's old Immigration and Naturalization Service," says columnist Dan K. Thomasson. "How many illegal aliens now live and work here is anyone's guess, probably millions. Still, Congress and immigration authorities waste time worrying about a former au pair whose husband was killed in a highway accident after an extended courtship and 11 months of marriage while the September 11 maniacs escaped detection."