The American Spectator

Reader Mail

p> COMMON SENSE, NOT COMPREHENSIVE br> Re: David Hogberg's Up From Amnesty : /p>

Leave it to a guy from Iowa to come up with a common sense solution to the problem. I, too, grew up in Iowa and I believe it is something in the water -- except that wouldn't explain Senator Harkin, would it?

Mr. Hogberg has the right idea except I think the border enforcement should go on for at least five years before we start a guest worker program. Our bureaucrats can fake it for two years. It would be much more difficult to fabricate numbers and fences for five years.

During that five years, we can start enforcing the employer sanctions on those who hire illegals. With employer sanctions in place fewer illegals would be able to get jobs and would start disappearing back into their own country. When that happens, then start a guest worker program.

p>Just some thoughts from a former Iowan... br> -- Judy Beumler br> Louisville, Kentucky /p>

The words that David Hogberg would put in President Bush's mouth on the matter of illegal immigration are not the words that I would put in President Bush's mouth. So here goes:

topics:
Taxes, Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Harry Reid, Economics, Business, Social Security, Sports, Islam, Global Warming, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, NATO, Immigration, Energy, Oil, Medicare