George Putnam
Friday, Dec. 2, 2005

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It is this reporter's opinion that the president may actually be listening; he might, at long last, be hearing the pleadings of the 80 percent of American citizens who demand that our immigration fiasco be reformed.

Having concluded his trip to Arizona, trying once again to sell the idea of a massive illegal alien amnesty and admission of millions of additional foreign "guest workers," he was driven along the Mexican border. Listen to what the president had to say after completing the brief journey:

It's dangerous here," Bush said, "I mean, there's no other way to look at it, and that's why these folks [speaking of the Border Patrol] need more resources and more agents to help them and that's what we're providing."

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Need we remind him that agents in the sector he described caught 122,600 illegal immigrants in fiscal 2005 and that's up from 104,000 in 2004!

Yes, the president is speaking tougher than usual about border security and immigration enforcement; nonetheless, under the Bush proposal, millions of illegal aliens would be reclassified as "temporary workers" and be allowed to remain here for up to six years.

In addition, the president has repeatedly called for unlimited admission of additional foreign workers in an effort to "match willing workers with willing employers" at whatever wages the employer wishes to pay.

Meanwhile, The Associated Press (Nov. 7, 2005) reports that illegal aliens are now being offered protection by the U.S. Labor Department. AP reports that the U.S. Department of Labor and Mexico's Foreign Ministry pledge to protect the rights (especially fair pay and safe working conditions) of immigrant workers whether they are in the U.S. legally or not.

Listen to what Peter Accolla of the Labor Department Office of Trade Agreement Implementation has to say: "It is not the policy of the Department of Labor to penalize and expose workers regardless of their status." Accolla joined Bosco Marti, Mexico's foreign relation point man on North American affairs and Mexican consuls from across the U.S., to review progress made on two agreements between the two countries. Go figure.

Every year Time magazine tells us 3 million illegal aliens stream across the border and settle in the U.S. Many illegals actually open U.S. bank accounts, obtain driver's licenses, secure home mortgages and matricula consular cards, and now receive "protection" using our own government to help them continue to break the laws.

The president is right when he says that "It's dangerous here ... there's no other way to look at it" and that the Border Patrol needs more resources and more agents to help them. But while the president's talk is tougher than usual, it is time that he carry through on his promises to the American public.

It is all so simple, Mr. President and Congress: Just follow the law. You have three administration priorities:

1. Require employers to verify work eligibility and penalize noncompliance.
2. Integrate state-federal immigration law enforcement.
3. Cut overall levels of immigration.

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