The deal on immigration

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Author(s) Rocky Mountain News editorial board
Source Rocky Mountain News
Date May 19, 2007
URL http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/editorials/article/0,2777,DRMN_23964_5544587,00.html
Quote
Quotes-start.png "Eighteen months seems way too fast to hire and train 18,000 new border guards; complete 370 miles of border fencing and another 200 miles of "vehicle barriers;" install 70 radio towers and deploy unmanned drones along the entirety of the border with Mexico; and implement tamper-proof employment IDs nationwide. If the security provisions are not taken seriously, this nation could repeat the fiasco of the 1986 immigration law, which opened the floodgates to two decades of massive illegal border crossings. " Quotes-end.png


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This item takes a mixed stance on the position Act should be passed on the topic Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007.