December 16, 2004

Mor-TON! Didn't you get the memo?

Morton Kondracke offers a column in support of the Bush/Fox Amnesty. In a way, it seems like something that would have been written all the way back in January 2004:

If President Bush is going to keep his promise to spend political capital on a bold second- term agenda, he should include comprehensive immigration reform that offers deserving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.

To do so, he'd have to face down a noisy, but not large, anti-immigrant claque in the Republican Party that's determined to use the threat of terrorism as an excuse to, in effect, erect "Stay Out!' signs at the U.S. border, even to restrict legal immigration.

In reality, creating a process to legalize illegals would help homeland security by allowing law enforcement agencies to concentrate on border security and tracking down criminals and potential terrorists - rather than chasing after millions of ordinary undocumented aliens, especially Hispanics.

This logic seems to have impressed border-state Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has told immigrant-rights groups that comprehensive immigration reform is his top priority for the next Congress...

One has to wonder what rock Mor-TON! crawled out from under.

Posted to Immigration2004 at December 16, 2004 08:33 PM

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