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January 3, 2008
Any workable immigration plan must include amnesty


The illegal immigration problem has been a primary topic among conservatives during this election season. Moderate approaches have been labeled amnesty. But conservative proposals for dealing with illegal immigration may best be described as fantasy.

By most estimates, there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement people boast the removal of 195,000 aliens in 2006. If we reduced the number of illegal immigrants by this amount every year, we could deport all of them in about 60 years. However, between 400,000 and 700,000 enter each year.

It is tempting to believe that increasing ICE's $3.5 billion detention and removal budget by 60 fold would solve the problem. This ignores the probability that those removed were low-hanging fruit.

Any earnest effort at removal or preventing aliens from engaging in legal employment would likely drive aliens farther underground, and force them into illicit enterprise in order to survive. This would remove them from taxpayer rolls while increasing the need for law enforcement to prevent crime. Doing something could be a whole lot worse than doing nothing.

Yet, doing nothing is unacceptable. There are 12 million second-class citizens among us - a servant class. These refugees from poverty are abused by unscrupulous employers. They cannot demand or defend their rights without legal status; they cannot claim benefits for which they pay taxes.

Both pragmatic and humanitarian considerations converge toward a solution that includes amnesty.

- Rick Whitten, Ogden Iowa
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/p ... /-1/NEWS04