Krauthammer Joins George Will in Backing Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Published May 19, 2006 2:09pm ET



Charles Krauthammer, who can’t be accused of being an “amnesty” squish, writes in today’s Washington Post that a final bill that includes rigorous border enforcement and a path to citizenship for those already here “would make sense.”

I am not against legalization. Admittedly, legalization is desperately unfair to the further millions who have been waiting in line at U.S. consulates around the world. By itself, it would only encourage future illegal immigration. But if coupled with a program that closes down the border, it would make sense. It would resolve the problem once and for all.

And yesterday on Fox, he argued:

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