refWrite endorses US President's immigration reform

I've been reading left, right and center regarding the different current opinions on government immigration policy in the USA and Canada. I've been watching developments in the news online and on TV, what's been happening at the border crossings between our two countries and also event along the border between the US and Mexico (with Canada, that's all three of the NAFTA countries). I've been noting the illegals pouring into Canada by airplane and by ship landing illegals on East Coast, also in containers on Canada's West Coast. And, even more extensively, the arrival from Mexico of desperate illegals crossing into the US Southwest, first mostly into New Mexico, and now mostly into Arizona. These illegals are bleeding Arizona slowly to death. Public opinion against illegals is growing more heated. The continuing and intensifying of underground communities subject to criminal manipulation has created a shadow existence that most Americans cannot openly acknowlege to themselves. Many have crossed a border in their own minds into the realm of denial.

But the problems won't go away, and few have offered a multi-faceted solution that is workable, enforceable, and humane.

Today I finally became convinced that the US President from Texas has done just that, with the plan he has put before Congress. I was pushed over the edge into endorsement of President Bush's plan by an article authored by Tamara Jacoby of the Manhatten Institute, published in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard, Feb 28, 2005, "Law and Borders" where she presents a case aimed at persuading conservatives, especially those in Congress who don't support Bush's plan, arguing that his is the only way to go. I recommend mulling it over. - Owlb

Update: Most Mexican Illegals in US willing to go home after 5 years under Bush plan, some to return legally