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Chertoff Plays a Larger Role as Point Man on Guest Worker Amnesty Program

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is assuming a higher profile role as the Bush administration gears up for a full-scale effort to enact an illegal alien amnesty and increase the admission of foreign guest workers. Since mid-December, when the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Streamline II, Secretary Chertoff has made several highly publicized trips to the border and to communities along the border struggling to cope with mass illegal immigration.

At each of the stops and during each media appearance, Chertoff’s message combined tough talk about enforcement, invariably followed by the caveat that immigration enforcement is not possible without “legal channelsâ€