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May 13th, 2006

Border Security

President Bush’s new plan, or at the very least, hope, is to tighten our borders. Given Bush’s past experience as a border-state governor, I am shocked why it has taken so long for him to announce that he has a plan for tightening our borders and also will put effort (a speech on Monday night) in backing it. The plans proposed in Congress of making undocumented immigrants criminals and having an official process to legalize them are both absurd. The first would severely disrupt life as we know it and the second can lead to employers taking advantage of their illegal employees, not to mention, it would drive costs, and therefore prices, up at many businesses that currently employ these workers. The alternative, therefore, would be to focus on borders and have a greater patrol staff on the perimeter.

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