Charles Norwood: “this month a bill to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants was introduced in the United States Senate. I think we should…”

“this month a bill to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants was introduced in the United States Senate. I think we should send a very clear message to the other body not to waste their time or ours on any bill dealing with the status of illegal immigrants until we first secure our borders. What good does it do to try to address the problems of 11 to 16 million people who are here illegally if we do not address the gaping wound that allowed them in this country to start with? The majority of illegals simply walk across our woefully undermanned 2,000-mile border with Mexico. We could deport them back to their country of origin, and millions would be pouring back across that same border within hours. We could turn our backs on justice and the rule of law and declare everyone here as now to be legal. Within hours we would have millions more illegal immigrants walking across that same border, encouraged by the fact that they could laugh at our laws with impunity. Either extreme, or anything in between, is pointless while we let our border continue to bleed. Trying to defend 1,951 miles of border against 4 million illegal immigrants a year with just 10,817 border patrol officers is a mathematical impossibility. This month Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert Bonner told the House Committee on Government Reform that we could secure the border, that we could secure the border, with an additional 50,000 auxiliary officers.…”