Boston Globe Spins Left on Amnesty
Just the portion of the article in the excerpt below is proof enough the author is left and wrong. There will be no button produced in Congress to instantly correct the illegal immigration problem when pressed. 20 or 30 years of allowing illegal immigration to continue without any significant enforcement of law is what caused this problem. And providing amnesty for those who have and continue to violate the law while simultaneously demanding rights is insane.
At the bottom of the article an emotional appeal is made using successful students as the subject. Valedictorians from around Boston are described as having 21 of 41 foreign-born students. It further mentions it is likely some are here illegally. The point they are trying to make is obvious. But it misses the real point entirely. No one is saying all illegals are bad and none of them are good. It still does not erase the facts.
The current flow of illegal immigration and the millions of people here illegally is a stress on this nation we cannot afford. Both security and economic strain and risk are excessive. To ignore the problems caused by illegal immigration is to bury your head in the sand. Giving those who break the law a ‘pass’ will only compound the problem.
Halting all immigration until the problem is corrected is not such an outlandish suggestion. While this story quotes Tom Tancredo as saying it should be halted until ‘you don’t have to press one on the phone for English’, the fact remains it makes more sense than amnesty.
Stanford Matthews
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An amnesty for lousy politics
The Boston Globe
06/08/2007
Twelve million illegal immigrants were living and working inside U.S. borders before Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy presented their bipartisan immigration reform bill last month, and 12 million are here now. How can the “amnesty” opponents in the Senate who helped derail the bill Thursday possibly call that a victory?