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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) agrees that the federal government must act to secure American borders ("Minuteman volunteers vow to keep border secure," Page 1, Monday). An amateur volunteer civilian border patrol like the Minutemen is not the answer. If a dozen years of sustained and unparalleled growth in Border Patrol agents has not curtailed illegal immigration, a handful or scores of self-styled amateur Minutemen will not do the job or serve the national interest.
Instead, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, key to the administration's enforcement strategy is a temporary worker program that would provide an incentive to foreign workers to "come out of the shadows" and acquire legal status.See the full content of this document
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Conflict On the Border
The administration is correct that comprehensive immigration reform should encompass both a process (such as that of the bipartisan McCain-Kennedy bill) for legalization of immigrants who are alread...
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