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September 25, 2006
 
 

AZ Paper: It's Unpossible to Seal the Border


"History offers little hope for a nation attempting to seal its southern border. The government slowed illegal crossings to a trickle in targeted areas of El Paso and San Diego. So illegal entrants shifted their routes to Arizona and New Mexico. Now they're shifting back. Whatever officials have tried, the flow of illegal immigration has not stopped. Not even close," claims the Arizona Daily Star, long a supporter of illegal immigration dating back to the 1980's Sanctuary movement. "The[DHS] concedes it may not be able to catch every illegal entrant. Its goal is operational control, which spokesman Mario Martinez defines as 'an area on the border that we can say we are able to, with high probability, detect, respond and interdict border penetration.'"

The Star's story is one in a series meant to protest the recent votes to construct a border fence in Arizona.

FAIR comment: A more balanced commentary is in today's Washington Post, about the need for effective interior enforcement to complement border security as part of a comprehensive security and enforcement solution. However, the author of the Post commentary, from the Heritage Foundation, mistakenly believes that a guest worker program would help control illegal immigration.

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