ATTRITION
The issue of what to do
about illegal aliens living in the United
States is often presented as a Hobson's choice:
either launch mass roundups to arrest and
deport 9-million-plus people, or define away
the problem through legalization.
The second option -- amnesty
-- is the one President Bush chose in his
January 7 speech on immigration. It also
underlies many congressional proposals, from
the McCain-Kolbe-Flake and Hagel-Daschle bills
in the Senate to the House Democratic
leadership's proposal unveiled in late January.
. . . Fortunately for America there is a third
way, between the politically impossible and
disruptive approach of mass roundups on one
hand, and the surrender of our sovereignty by
the open-borders Left and its libertarian
fellow-travelers on the other.
This third way is attrition,
squeezing the illegal population through
consistent, across-the-board law enforcement to
bring about an annual reduction in the illegal
population rather than the annual increases we
have seen for more than a decade. Over a few
years, the number of illegal aliens would drop
significantly, shrinking the problem from a
crisis to a manageable nuisance. Remember
that the purpose of immigration law enforcement
is to stop illegal immigration, not persecute
individuals. Illegal aliens will have to
accept the consequences of their illegal
actions.
Not
Amnesty but Attrition: The Way to Go on
Immigration
Amnesty or deportation: false choices
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