Every sensible immigration policy has two objectives.

One, to regain control of our borders, so that we decide who enters, and two, to find a

humane way to deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants who now live among us.

Start with the second, for both practical and moral reasons, America cannot and will

not, and should not expel 11 million people.

It leads us with two choices.

Ignore them or figure out a way to legalize them.

Ignoring them hasn't worked, but there's also a huge problem with legalization.

It creates an irresistible incentive for new illegal immigrants to come.

We say, of course, that this would be the very last, very final, never again.

We're not kidding this time, Adam and the State, and everyone knows it's phony.

So it was said in 1986, when we passed the Simpson-Mazoleum immigration reform, it turned

out to be the largest legalization program in American history, nearly 3 million people

got permanent residency.

There was no enforcement.

We now have 11 million new illegal immigrants in our midst.

The irony of this whole debate, which bitterly splits the country, is that there is a silver

bullet that would not just solve the problem, but also create a national consensus behind

it.

A vast number of Americans who oppose legalization and fear new waves of immigration would change

their minds if we could radically reduce new IE future illegal immigration.

And we can.

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