Is It Time For A Moratorium on Immigration?

BY THOMAS MCARDLE


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President Obama's plans to save five million illegal aliens from deportation ran squarely into the law last month, as an appeals court panel upheld an injunction imposed by a federal judge in February after more than half the states sued.

Consequently, the administration's elaborate mass amnesty operation has "kind of come to a screeching halt," National Immigration Law Center executive director Marielena Hincapie lamented.

From Ted Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act to Obama today, Democrats' policy on the issue has had one overriding goal: more votes for their party.

"I don't think that's something that nobody knows," Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio told New York/Philadelphia radio host Aaron Klein.

Arpaio, famous for managing an aggressive approach to immigration enforcement in his jurisdiction, added, "You make them here legally so they can vote."

The problem isn't just illegal immigration. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum published a 48-page report last year, buttressed by 100 reference notes, contending, "Republicans can never turn liberal-leaning immigrants and their adult children into supporters of limited government faster than the current high level of legal immigration (one million a year) is bringing in new liberal voters." Result: current legal immigration dooms the Party of Reagan.

Extreme problems require dramatic solutions. Ann Coulter, author of the just-published "Adios, America," has now concluded that there should be a 10-year moratorium on all immigration.

Politically impossible? Almost certainly. But absent such drastic action, Schlafly's prophecy will no doubt be proved right.

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