"Illegals acted on rumors of amnesty"

From the WashTimes:

Nearly 35 percent of the illegal aliens captured trying to enter the United States in the 19 days after President Bush proposed a still-pending guest-worker program say they were trying to take advantage of what many saw as amnesty.

According to a confidential Border Patrol report to a Senate committee, 1,000 of 2,881 foreign nationals interviewed by agents after their capture at the U.S.-Mexico border between Jan. 7 and Jan. 26 acknowledged that rumors of an amnesty program - outlined in Mexican press reports and passed on by relatives - had influenced their decision to try to enter the United States illegally...

As we can see, the immigration system in this country is broken... excuse me, what was that? You're saying the immigration system is not broken so much as our politicians not only refuse to enforce the law they make the situation worse with their insane pandering?

Immigration2004 · Mon, 08/02/2004 - 10:17 · · Importance: 1