The Tribune’s Jan. 8 editorial about President Bush’s “new immigration plan” is nearly as offensive as the plan itself (“More order on the borders”).
The editorial asks, “How do you deport an army of workers roughly the size of the population of the entire Chicago metropolitan area?” The answer should be obvious: one at a time.
There can be no argument against reforming U.S. immigration policy. It is woefully inadequate. But laws are still laws until they are acted upon by a legislative body. They don’t become suggestions because it is politically expedient to be so. People who have willfully broken the law don’t deserve to be rewarded for evading it. If we start handing out citizenship to these criminals, the U.S. government will be sending a dangerous message.
