First control the border: Fence it
Charles Krauthammer - Washington Post Writers Group
Updated: 06/15/07 7:06 AM

WASHINGTON — Comprehensive immigration reform is in jeopardy because it is a complex compromise with too many moving parts and too many competing interests. Employers want a guest worker program; unions want to kill it. Reformers want to introduce a point system that preferentially admits skilled and educated immigrants; immigrant groups naturally want to keep the family preference system. Liberals want legalization now; conservatives insist on enforcement “triggersâ€