Immigration Reform Is Critical to National Security
By Bill West
The national debate about how to reform and improve America’s massive immigration problems is heating up dramatically. There are many competing interests in all this that will seek their own agenda. What should be remembered are how critical immigration issues are to national security.
From border security to visa issuance control to interior enforcement to the aggressive pursuit and prosecution of immigration benefit fraud perpetrators, these are all significant aspects of immigration control that have been violated and abused by foreign terrorists, their organizations and supporters for the purpose of those terrorist aliens gaining entry into the US and remaining here once they’ve crossed the border. Any immigration reform measures must put national security as the highest priority.
That said, given the highly charged political nature of immigration policy, the American people can probably expect, at best, any changes in US immigration law and policy to reflect only moderate improvement relative to security. These issues will be very interesting to observe as they play out over the coming months. In October of last year, I wrote an article for FrontPage magazine detailing a number of these issues and suggested how immigration enforcement matters might be substantially improved without implementing draconian measures.
These are critical times in the immigration arena. While a handful of US political leaders seem to genuinely recognize the importance of these matters relative to our national security, there are far too many who still appear to place other considerations ahead of that issue.
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