Letters to the Editor
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Can't believe I'm saying this, but
I'm giving the guy a break on this one, for the moment. I have disagreed with everything he's ever done, except the invasion of Afghanistan, but I've always thought he'd eventually do something right. I'd hoped he'd rebuild New Orleans well.
If he can reform immigration in a way that doesn't involve the (ridiculous idea of) mass deportation of 7 to 15 million illegals, involving as it does the idea that the Freepers and survivalists so love, of concentration camps for the poor; that addresses the downward pressure on wages (which, by the way, gets mitigated if illegals are made legal, because minimum wages are much, much harder to enforce when people are paid under the table); and that takes into account the fact that, for crying out loud, we've made a free-trade zone with Mexico (and we want to build an electrical fence to keep their workers out?); then more power to him. I'm fully prepared to give Bush the benefit of the doubt, though I've broken with him on almost every other issue.