Bush Immigration Plan a Bad Idea
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...Under [President Bush's] proposal, the government would confer legal status (an initial three-year work permit) on millions of illegal immigrants living in this country who can show they are employed or on those currently living in their home countries if they have received offers of employment here....
Mr. Bush says that "common sense and fairness" require that we allow illegals to fill jobs that Americans are not filling. But just because the plan might make sense economically doesn't mean it makes "common sense," especially when there are strong non-economic reasons not to do it, which there are.
And why are we even talking about fairness in the same breath with illegal aliens?...
Bush says, 'We should have immigration laws that work and make us proud.' Our current laws, he says, 'force employers to turn to the illegal labor market.' But, since we make such a pathetic effort at enforcing our laws, how do we know whether they could work?...
The fact that even Bush's supporters aren't sure why he's doing this or how he can justify it is all the proof we need that it is wrongheaded...
Beyond undermining the rule of law, this plan devalues the uniqueness of American citizenship by trivializing the laws aimed at making it selective and a special privilege. It sends a message that illegal immigration is a trifling matter.
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