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p> STILL NOT BUDGING br> Re: Brandon Crocker's reply in Reader Mail's Not in the Mood and Brandon Crocker's Room for Compromise? : /p>

Brandon Crocker's reply to his critics freely packages his apples with his oranges, and is indicative of the Hobson's Choice he and other supporters of the Senate's bill and the president's will would have us believe that we face: a border control bill with a guest worker program attached, or no bill at all with the continued Mexican inundation that would naturally follow. He asserts that "the ultimate goals of immigration reform should be (1) better border security and (2) to rationalize how we let people into the country so that we can reasonably accommodate our labor needs while controlling who gets to come into the country to work and who gets to stay[,]" and that "[a] guest worker program as part of a broader border security package serves these goals." (Emphasis mine.)

The only bill that should come out of the conference for a vote, and ultimately for the president's signature, should have as its only goal not "better" border security, but complete border security. The determination that any such bill must include accommodation for those already residing or working in the United States illegally is an obstacle advanced by servants of the open-borders lobby that intends it as a poison pill to end, or at least further delay, the effort. Once the border is secured, if the U.S. economy is deemed after reflection to require the continued importation of cheap foreign labor, then separate legislation to establish such a program can be considered. That reflection, though, will be more time-consuming than our security needs permit.

p>We are at war with ruthless and bloodthirsty opponents, fully capable of availing themselves of the same laxity enjoyed at our frontier by garden-variety illegal aliens. Close the border today. Quibble over the niceties of deportation tomorrow. br> -- Stephen Foulard br> Houston, Texas /p>

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