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...death, and the rate of suicide attacks has escalated sharply in recent months in response to the U.S. military "surge" in Baghdad. In the latest attack, at least 20 people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a cafe in Mandali, a small Kurdish town on the Iranian border...
...appreciably - not as long as half of Mexico's and Central America's populations live in grinding poverty. What's more, because migrants would be forced to take even greater risks to evade the beefed-up border guard, the almost 500 of them who died in the desert last year (another record) might look like a small number in years to come. And U.S. employers - the same business lobby that rabid anti-immigration conservatives otherwise coddle - are sure to go almost any length, as they've always done, to skirt the new rules for verifying workers' legal status. Too much...
...program is the right idea, as long as it doesn't repeat the human rights abuses of the last century's bracero project. Letting 400,000 migrant construction workers, lawn-cutters and other laborers into the U.S. each year, legally and temporarily, is a solid way to turn the border's deadly chaos into a safer and more sensible flow - and let our border cops pursue genuine national security threats instead of Guatemalan nannies...
...years ago). But it may be too expensive an amnesty for many illegals to sign up for: it would have been more effective, psychologically, if the Senate had kept the "fine" closer to $2,000 - that is, what most migrants pay coyotes to smuggle them over the border...
...real mistake is assuming that immigration reform is domestic policy. It's foreign policy. We can blanket the border with barbed wire, but little will change on the illegal immigration front until we convince Mexico and Latin America to break open their monopolistic economies and close their shameless gaps between rich and poor. Mexican migrants alone send home as much as $25 billion a year in remittances. Those are now Mexico's largest revenue source - and a cynical social safety valve for its government. Some in the U.S. Congress have suggested slapping a tax on those wire transfers...