Rounding Up the Usual Suspects

NRO ^ | 28 Apr 06 | John O'Sullivan

[rellimpank]

Porous borders are partly a result, not just the cause, of failed immigration policy.

It happened Wednesday of last week and it was nicely timed.

One week later the U.S. Senate was scheduled to reconvene and to discuss an immigration bill. The bill proposes to amnesty most of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and to admit millions more legally as guest workers. It is a controversial measure, strongly promoted by the White House and both party leaderships in the Senate but firmly opposed by most Republican congressmen, an overwhelming majority of Republican voters, and a large majority of all voters. And, according to the polls, the opposition was growing daily.

Something was needed to break the log-jam.

[Serenissima Venezia]

...these figures show that worksite arrests under Bush have fallen from Clintonian levels by something like 97 percent — even though September 11 occurred in the meantime.

Hard to believe that with a Republican in the WH and a Republican controlled Congress, Clinton's record on illegal immigration surpasses this administration's.

How does one say "most enraged Venice"? I need to change my screen name.