Immigration is unclear for politicians at every level

“President Bush has rediscovered illegal immigration as a political issue. After previously focusing on ““welcoming’’ all who come to America by whatever means, the president spent most of his recent speech in Tucson, Ariz., sounding like Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, who has been the most vocal proponent of sealing U.S. borders to illegal aliens.

Ninety percent of the speech was about the president’s new get-tough policy. The rest focused on his ““guest-worker’’ program, which is amnesty by whatever name he calls it. He says he wants to end the government’s catch-and-release policy in which non-Mexican illegals are apprehended, detained and then released, but that there aren’t enough beds in detention centers to hold all of those apprehended. By some estimates, sufficient housing won’t be available for at least six years. There are many ““sounds–good’’ proposals in the president’s speech and his remarks might have more credibility had they come immediately after Sept., 11, 2001. An unknown number of people crossing our borders have no interest in building homes; they wish only to destroy America’s ““home.’’ “

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