WSJ on immigration reform:
The immigration debate is finally picking up some Beltway steam, which is long overdue. The problem is that it’s moving in a direction that could do real damage to the economy, not to mention to the Republican Party.
Any sensible immigration reform would focus not just on keeping illegals out of the country, but also on why they’re coming and how to get the estimated 11 million illegals already here out of the shadows. Yet last year the House whooped through a bill that expands enforcement and nothing else.
We doubt voters elected a Republican Congress to build walls along the Rio Grande and Canada and punish businesses for hiring willing workers. But since Representative James Sensenbrenner and other House GOP leaders have ignored President Bush’s request for comprehensive reform, soberer types in the Senate will have to keep Republican restrictionists from running the party over a cliff.
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