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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I think our borders are too open. I also see a need for guest workers.

Guest worker programs tend to devolve into constructive Amnesty over time. The reality is that our government has never shown a wit of disciple on immigration ever. Remember that 1986 Amnesty bill that Reagan signed? By the time Reagan's proposed legislation got out of Congress it was stripped of most of the controls he had asked for. Yet, instead of vetoing it, he signed it. Looked what happened. Also, with a change of administrations a Guest Worker program can be changed to straight Amnesty with the stroke of a pen.

No, the time has come for our government to respond to the will of the people "for once" and do the right thing by enforcing all our immigration laws and truly protecting our borders. The illegal labor shops have had it too good for too long at the expense of the citizens of America.

46 posted on 02/21/2002 8:53:27 AM PST by WRhine
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To: WRhine
No, the time has come for our government to respond to the will of the people "for once" and do the right thing by enforcing all our immigration laws and truly protecting our borders.

If it truly was "the will of the people" it would have been done by now. It has been handled abysmally and now it's going to take some doing, and some stepped on toes (on both sides of the issue) to set it right. But it needs to be done. We need to secure our borders, north and south, our ports and every airport in between.

51 posted on 02/21/2002 9:27:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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