Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.
Let us be clear. We support the idea of enhanced border enforcement, but we support it as one ingredient in the recipe of comprehensive immigration reform. Enforcement only doesn’t work as a national strategy to control illegal immigration.
In October 1994, we supported the launch of Operation Gatekeeper, which helped secure the California-Mexico border and bring order to the San Diego sector. But when the Clinton administration cracked down on the flow of illegal immigrants into California, it squeezed more illegal immigrants across the border into Arizona.
Those illegal immigrants might have kept right on going to points north in search of work had Arizona employers refused to hire them. That didn’t happen. Cities all over the Grand Canyon State were booming, and there was a hunger for cheap labor. In fact, so many illegal immigrants wound up working and settling in Arizona that the state now has the most illegal immigrants in the country in terms of a percentage of the total population.
[Read More here: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/22/a-flawed-plan-for-border/
[Posted By Evelyn Ramirez and Antonio Ramirez]
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