U.S. Border Control

Illegal immigration – Is anyone at DHS concerned?

Yet another research report adds statistical confirmation to what Americans in Mexican border states already know: Illegal immigration has gotten completely out of hand. This time it is the liberal-leaning Pew Hispanic Center reporting a startling conclusion: Illegal immigration now outpaces legal immigration. Last year, the Pew Center estimates, some 562,000 people broke U.S. laws to take up residence in the United States, compared with 455,000 people who legally obtained residency.

The Pew Center is not the first to report the scale of illegal immigration, although it may be the first to find that a majority of immigrants, principally hailing from Mexico, are here illegally.

The so-called Department of "Homeland Security's" response? Denial. "I don't know that there are any indications that the undocumented population is growing faster than the legal population," department spokesman Bill Strassberger told reporters.

Is anyone at the Department of Homeland Security actually concerned about such mundane matters as the porous Mexican border and the extreme ease with which evildoers could cross it and do us harm?

The Bush administration's ghastly ineptitude regarding illegal immigration is long-standing. The White House's amnesty-for-illegals ideas quickly died on Capitol Hill, and since then the administration has more or less ignored the issue. But denying the problem exists won't make it go away.

Congress, when it is done amusing itself with public lashings of FEMA officials, should take strong action to secure our nation's border. Today's utter lack of border enforcement, and resulting flood of illegal immigration, is an intolerable situation that should not be allowed to continue.