Illegal immigrants

In from the cold
Aug 30th 2007
From The Economist print edition
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/ ... id=9725304

The Liberal Democrats propose a managed amnesty

AFTER George Bush failed ignominiously in his attempt to grant amnesty to illegal residents in America, it is a bold politician who proposes a similar idea in Britain. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats' spokesman on home affairs, is not quite the first to try his luck: Alan Johnson and Harriet Harman both floated the idea during their bids to become deputy leader of the Labour Party earlier this year. His pitch is, however, the most considered.

Mr Clegg's proposal, in a newspaper column on August 26th, to “regulariseâ€