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January 16, 2007
 
 

How To Deal With Illegal Immigration? Enforce the Law


"While there are many ideas and strongly differing views on what to do about illegal immigration, any program that rewards illegal aliens who have broken the laws of the United States with citizenship is undeserved and unwarranted amnesty. However, what are we to do with the 10+ million illegal aliens currently in the country? If 10 million is a problem, then 25 million is a much bigger problem. When a water pipe breaks in your house, the very first thing you do is to shut off the water and then the mess is cleaned up. Illegal immigration must be treated in the same way," says the Family Security Foundation. "This requires two different set of actions: first slowing and preventing entry and then making it harder for existing illegal aliens to live and stay in the US. More importantly, it means having the will to enforce the law. As Heather MacDonald noted in Illegal Immigration Myths 'the threat of enforcement must be credible.'”

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