January 02, 2009

Michelle Malkin : The State of the Borders

Posted at Michelle's:

If you think the bad economy has “solved” America’s immigration problems, welcome to your end-of-the-year reality check. It’s certainly true that illegal crossings from the south are down and that many foreign workers are returning to their native lands as work dries up. But border chaos, haphazard enforcement, massive backlogs, and deportation negligence remain the order of the day.

A half-million citizenship applications have been pending for more than nine months. Some 700,000 illegal alien absconders — fugitives from deportation like Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango — are free. An estimated 4-5 million illegal visa overstayers from around the world remain in the country. Both Big Business and left-wing ethnic groups have colluded to prevent an employer verification program for workers’ citizenship status from getting implemented nationwide. And the borders are still largely borders in name only.

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By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at January 2, 2009 12:55 PM | | l digg this