Trust lacking on border security
By Jim Wooten | Saturday, May 26, 2007, 10:06 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The underlying problem, the insurmountable obstacle to embracing the immigration bill now before the U.S. Senate, is that people don’t trust Congress. Or the bureaucracy that will administer it. Or future administrations to honor the promises the bill makes.

Frankly, I’m ambivalent about the compromise. If the borders aren’t secured, it’s another in what will become a long line of amnesty grants. Our failure to secure them will continue to be interpreted, as it is now by the left, as an invitation to illegals. They won’t insist — they never have — that the borders be secured.

Instead, the blame will be assigned to a moving target: greedy corporatists unwilling to pay wages that would attract native-borns, a culture of conspicuous consumption dependent on cheap labor to build the houses and maintain the lifestyles we demand, or some other presumed sin that blames America for being a nation that invites and exploits desperately poor neighbors.

From that “it’s-our-faultâ€