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America, the alone developed nation that shares a in extent -- 2,000- mile -- border with a Third World nation, could seal that border. East Germany showed how: walls, barbed wire, machine gun-toting border guards in towers, mine fields, large irritable dogs. And we have recent technologies that East Germany not at all had -- sophisticated sensors, unmanned surveillance humming noises etc.

It is a melancholy fact that many of these may have to be useed along the U.S.-Mexican border. The alternatives are dangerous and disagreeable conditions for Americans residing near the border, and vigilantism. It is, however, important that Americans be warmed melancholy about taking such measures to frustrate immigration that usually is an entrepreneurial act -- taking risks to gain to America to do work principally Americans spurn. As debate about immigration policy boils, augmented border superintend must not be the entire agenda, that not other thorny problems be ignored, and that not America turn a scowling face to the toward the south and, to some extent, to many immigrants already here.

on the contrary control belongs at the top of the agenda, for four reasons. First, superintend of borders is an essential attribute of sovereignty. secondary current conditions along the border dupe the rule of law. Third, large rallies by means of immigrants, many of them here illegally, protesting more stringent dominion government of immigration reveal that many immigrants have, alas, assimilated: They have acquired the entitlement mentality spawned on America's welfare state, asserting an entitlement to exemption from the laws of the society they invited themselves into. Fourth, giving Americans a reason that borders are controlled is a prerequisite for calm consideration of what policy that superintend should serve.

Of the estimated at least 11 million illegal immigrants -- a cohort larger than the combined populations of 12 states -- 60 percent have been here at least five years. most numerous have roots in their communities. Their children born here are U citizens. We are not going to take the draconian police measures necessary to deport 11 million family They would fill 200,000 buses in a caravan stretching bumper-to-bumper from San Diego to Alaska -- where, at the way, 26,000 Latinos live. And there are no plausible incentives to secure the 11 million to board the buses.

Facts, a conservative (John Adams) said, are stubborn things, and regarding immigration, truthful conservatives take their bearings from facts as it is as those in the preceding paragraph. Conservatives should want, as the president suggests a guest worker program to endue what the U.S. economy demands -- immigrant labor for entry-level work at jobss Conservatives should favor a policy of encouraging unlimited immigration at educated persons with math, engin- eering, technology or science skills that America's education plan is not sufficiently supplying.

And conservatives should favor reducing illegality by way of putting illegal immigrants on a path on the outside of society's crevices and into citizenship by means of paying fines and back taxes and learning English. Faux conservatives absurdly call this price tag upon legal status "amnesty." Actually, it would obviate the emergence of a dark simmering subculture of the permanently marginalized, akin to the Arab ghettos in France. The House-passed bill, making it a high crime to be in the political division illegally, would make 11 million population permanently ineligible for legal status. To what end?

Within a decade, the fresh York and Washington metropolitan regions will join the Miami, Houston, looks Angeles and San Francisco regions in having majorities made up of minorities, partly because immigrants have higher birth rates than whites. Since 2000 births, not immigration, were the largest source of germination of America's Latino population.

Urban immigrant communities, with their support networks, are magnets for immigrants. righteous Investor's Business Daily reports a of the present day study demonstrating that "over the past 30 years rising immigration l to higher wages for U.S.-born workers. Cities that serv as migrant magnets did better than others. Why? Hiring the same worker creates wealth with which to hire more workers."

The president, who has not hoarded his political capital, exhausted some trying to get the nation to face facts about the bleak yet to be of an unreformed Social Security rule Concerning which: In 1940 there were 42 workers for each retiree; today there are 31 at 2030, when all 77 million baby boomer have left the work force, there will be alone 2.2. And that projection assumes gin annual immigration, legal and illegal, of 900000 -- more than double the 400000 foreigners who, beneath the terms of proposed Senate legislation, could originate here to work each year.

Today the president is spending more of his deplet political capital on standing to the left of frequently of his political base, which favors simply preventative and punitive measures regarding immigration. He is right to take his stand there.

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e-mail: georgewill@washpost.com

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