An association of former U.S. Border Patrol officers, whose members include retired chiefs, supervisors, field agents and inspectors, says an immigration bill being debated in the Senate is "unrealistic and technologically unfeasible."
Instead, the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers said in a press conference this week and in a position paper, real immigration reform would include securing the border, tightening the screening of those permitted to enter, and opposition to any legislation allowing aliens to remain in the country who entered illegally. Kent Lundgren, association coordinator, said any new reform legislation should also include meaningful employer sanctions and a guest-worker program with tight restrictions.
"We do not delude ourselves, nor would we try to fool the American people into believing the border can be made completely secure. It can't," said Mr. Lundgren, a former Border Patrol assistant chief whose association has more than 250 members. "But it can be made secure enough. "Nor will we ever succeed in removing every illegal alien from this country. What we can do, through the adoption and use of well-considered and effectively enforced laws, is gain control of a situation that now, in our opinion, threatens the national well-being," he said. "It will not happen overnight or easily, but it can happen. To do less is to invite further chaos."
The association said the proposed Senate immigration-reform bill would "saddle the nation once again with law containing the same flaws" found in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to more than 3 million illegal aliens. With 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens now in the United States, the association said, the proposed law would bring a wave of amnesty "on a scale unimagined" at the time of the 1986 legislation.
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