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They say Bush is ineffectual abroad – how about the U.S. soccer team?

Thirty-nine conservative intellectuals, including such heavy hitters as Thomas Sowell and William Bennett, urged Congress to pass a bill to step up enforcement of the immigration laws before considering an amnesty or guest-worker program. Most House Republicans are sticking with that position. The White House is laboring to persuade them that the public eagerly awaits a “comprehensive immigration reform” including an amnesty and a guest-worker program, but they simply do not believe it. (Nor should they: The polls the White House cites have been worded to reach its preferred conclusion.) Supporters of comprehensive reform are now saying that the public will turn against a “do nothing” Republican Congress if it does not pass an immigration bill. But that is a reason for the Senate to enact the enforcement measures on which both chambers agree, and shelve its controversial amnesty and guest-worker program – preferably for a long, long time.

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They say Bush is ineffectual abroad – how about the U.S. soccer team?

Thirty-nine conservative intellectuals, including such heavy hitters as Thomas Sowell and William Bennett, urged Congress to pass a bill to step up enforcement of the immigration laws before considering an amnesty or guest-worker program. Most House Republicans are sticking with that position. The White House is laboring to persuade them that the public eagerly awaits a “comprehensive immigration reform” including an amnesty and a guest-worker program, but they simply do not believe it. (Nor should they: The polls the White House cites have been worded to reach its preferred conclusion.) Supporters of comprehensive reform are now saying that the public will turn against a “do nothing” Republican Congress if it does not pass an immigration bill. But that is a reason for the Senate to enact the enforcement measures on which both chambers agree, and shelve its controversial amnesty and guest-worker program – preferably for a long, long time.