What is wrong with the Democratic voters in District 50? Busby needed only 7,000 more votes and she could have had Cunningham's

Border security, not amnesty through a guest-worker program for 12 million illegal immigrants, must be the first step down the road to reform of America’s most imposing problem. Without it, we can expect nothing less than a repeat performance of the disastrous Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that gave 2.8 million illegal immigrants a free pass.

Ten years later, the average immigrant who had received amnesty was earning $9,000 a year and had made it only through the seventh grade. Meanwhile, the taxpayer cost of providing services to that group is estimated at $78 billion, according...