Our current illegal immigration problems result from a policy at war with the law of supply and demand, a war that pro-growth conservatives understand is as unwise as it is unnecessary. Short of mass alien deportations at gunpoint, which would damage the economy and aren't likely to fly well with the public, any transition to a more sensible system will involve some sort of decriminalization.
What a damned, scaremongering liar. Self-deportation is the answer. Figures the "market uber alles" WSJ would prefer an extremeist, border-dissolving law of supply and demand over the actual law of the land. In addition to raising immigration quotas, President Bush wants to normalize the status of millions of hard-working illegals already here and making a contribution. The law-and-order tub-thumpers on the right denounce any such talk as amounting to an "amnesty" that ultimately rewards lawbreakers. That's a fair point, and their only legitimate one, but it doesn't suffice as an argument that advances the debate.
There's unintended the glimmer of truth: tub-thumping law and order trumps the Bush Amnesty and appeasement on Illegals that the Wall Street Journal desires, therefore "it doesn't suffice as an argument that advances the debate." No fair using winning arguments against President Bush's sell-out to Illegal Aliens.
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