The president delivered a speech yesterday regarding illegal immigration and the U.S.-Mexican border. What he offered was not a redaction of his previous plan but a new focus to precede that plan.
Conservatives had opposed his initial plan of creating a guest-worker program not because they necessarily disagreed with the concept, but because the president’s plan ended there. Absent was any mention of shoring up the border to prevent illegal aliens from coming into the country in the first place. A guest-worker program may be the way to go, but before you can create new laws and programs you must enforce the existing ones, making sure that we do a better job of preventing illegal aliens from cutting in line in front of those who come here legally.
Moreover, a guest-worker program does little if anything to address the grave national security threat that arises from having poor border enforcement. A guest-worker program is not going to stop a member of al-Qaeda or someone else interested in harming the United States from crossing the border illegally and undocumented. Only a strong border enforcement will.
Hopefully the president now understands this and is willing to push for it with congress.
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