Sen. Mitt Romney says America has become an “asylum magnet” for immigrants on our southern border. I say, good for us! If refugees cannot find asylum in the United States, we stop being Americans.
As a congressional chief of staff in the late 1990s for a southern California congressman, I visited the border from Texas to Tijuana, met with border agents and witnessed firsthand the stress of it all near the height of illegal border crossings and arrests – around one and a half million a year.
If ever there has been a modern crisis of illegal immigration, that time period would have been it.