Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.
...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
