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Will the border fence between the US and Mexico, which was
signed into law on Oct. 26 but has not yet been funded, keep
out illegals? Should we be trying to keep them out?
Daniel T. Griswold, of the CATO institute, says, "The only
lasting solution to illegal immigration will be to offer a legal
alternative. A temporary worker program?would allow
peaceful and hardworking people to enter the United States
legally instead of illegally, and fill jobs in such important
sectors as construction, retail, hospitality, food processing
and agriculture that an insufficient number of Americans are
available and willing to fill. In the 1950s, the U.S. government
dramatically expanded the number of temporary visas
available through the Bracero Program for Mexican agricultural
workers. The result was an equally dramatic fall in illegal
entries to the United States. When Congress ended the
program in 1964, illegal immigration began to climb again and
has not stopped since. Our own experience teaches that
border enforcement alone without real immigration reform is
doomed to fail. If it is ever built, the 700-mile fence will stand
only as a monument to the failure of Congress to learn from
that experience."
Attorney Margaret Wong, who founded the largest
immigration law firm in Ohio, agrees, and says, "Absolutely,
the border fence will not work. The only way to eliminate
undocumented workers from crossing the Mexico-US border is
to educate Mexicans that it's dangerous to cross illegally.
They should get good visas, period."
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