The Immigration Deal

The immigration deal announced in the Senate last week poses an excruciating choice. It is a good plan wedded to a repugnant one. Its architects seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise. They tried to bridge the chasm between brittle hard-liners who want the country to stop absorbing so many outsiders, and those who want to give immigrants -- illegal ones, too -- a fair and realistic ... Full Story »

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Greg Kopczynski
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by Greg Kopczynski - Oct. 1, 2008

This is awful commentary. It glosses over the biggest problem most Americans have with this "amnesty deal" -- a problem thart is the reason that Bush's approval rating actually went *down* after the announcement of the deal. The problem is that, contrary to this editorial's claim, this deal does *not* fix the broken borders problem. Americans want to see the border secured first. Then we can consider the fate of those who willfully entered this country illegally. This compromise bill represents the exact opposite of the American people's will.

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