Arrogance on the Border

By Michael Reagan
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 19, 2006

Last week I wrote that the White House was both stupid and arrogant. This week, President Bush spoke to the nation on the immigration problem and promptly proved that I was right.

There can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of Americans - Republican or Democrat - are vehemently opposed to giving illegal immigrants a pass to become citizens as a reward for breaking the law and violating our borders. Ignoring what a majority of Americans demand is arrogant.

They also oppose the kind of guest-worker program the president backs because they know it would be simple for a Mexican worker to enter the country as a temporary worker under the guest worker program and then get a Green Card that could keep him or her here for the rest of his or her life. That’s just plain stupid.

It’s stupid to ignore the facts in the new Heritage Foundation report showing that the Senate immigration bill the president backs would allow 100 million new legal immigrants to come to the United States over the next 20 years. That’s fully a third of the total number of Americans now here.