Enforcement at work: the strategy of attrition is bearing fruit

National Review, August 4, 2008 by Mark Krikorian

In the past, spasms of enforcement quickly tapped out, teaching law-breaking businesses and illegal immigrants that they had only to keep their heads down for a time and the storm would pass. Regardless of the election result in November, changing that expectation is essential to regaining control over our immigration system.

Mr. Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and author of The New Case against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal.