We must insist on total enforcement of immigration laws

For a sovereign state to control its borders, it must be able to enact sufficient penalties on those who enter illegally so as to deter a wholesale onslaught. And that onslaught has been so great in recent years that the governors of Arizona and New Mexico have declared states of emergency. Yet legislation has been introduced in Congress, with the support of the Bush administration, that would render control of illegal immigration futile. Because of growing concern by most Americans about the immigration problem, any move to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants would be political suicide. There...