TANCREDO: Border control is primary problem

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Washington Times:

Enforcement is still the primary issue in the immigration reform debate, as it should be.

In the debates over the 2006 and 2007 amnesty proposals, there was one question amnesty proponents in Congress had a hard time answering: Why should we trust the administration to enforce a border-security agreement if no one has bothered to enforce the terms of the 1986 amnesty agreement? Does anyone think this should be less of an issue under the even more brazen anti-enforcement policies of the Obama administration?

The provisions of any “grand bargain” compromise on immigration reform are no more important than a credible plan for full and competent enforcement. The nation cannot afford another “wink-wink” deal that is a transparent sellout of border security.

Of course, there are those on both sides of the issue who think a debate on enforcement provisions is pointless. Those who distrust all enforcement promises can join hands with those who will promise anything, knowing enforcement will be abandoned once the ink is dry on the legislation. Why bother to haggle if the outcome will be meaningless three years down the road?

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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2012

 

Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto wants to help U.S. overhaul immigration

 

 

By Lesley Clark | McClatchy Newspapers

 

 

By Lesley Clark McClatchy Newspapers

 

WASHINGTON — Mexico’s incoming president told President Barack Obama on Tuesday that he hopes to help him pass a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration policy.

 

“We fully support your proposal,” President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto told Obama at the White House, part of a visit to the U.S. days ahead of his inauguration Saturday. “We won’t be demanding what you should do or shouldn’t do. We want to participate. We want to contribute. We want to be part of this.”

 

The two leaders delivered their remarks at the start of their meeting in the Oval Office. Obama didn’t directly address immigration, but he acknowledged Pena Nieto’s interest in the issue and said he’d share with the new president “my interest in promoting some issues that are important to the United States and ultimately will be important to Mexico as well.”

 

Democrats are hopeful that long-stalled immigration efforts

 

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@Draggingtree. We thank him for his concern(sarc)

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