Just days after the election, President Bush announced a major immigration initiative. The ‘high priority’ initiative would grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants as part of a migrant worker program. Wasting no time, President Bush met with Senator McCain of Arizona while Secretary of State Powell was in Mexico meeting with President Fox. As the debate begins on immigration policy, it’s important to keep several things in perspective.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats have all the right answers on our country’s broken immigration system. America needs an enlightened immigration policy that transcends political parties and the right/left partisan spectrum. A wise immigration policy would promote our country’s economic self-interest and our traditional values as a nation of immigrants (i.e., family unity, free enterprise, cultural and ethnic diversity, and a haven for those fleeing persecution).
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