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Since Sept. 11, a new consensus appears to have developed on the need for tighter immigration enforcement and border controls. Gone are the days when the Wall Street Journal repeatedly called for a constitutional amendment declaring that "there shall be open borders." After 9/11, even the libertarian-leftist united front for open borders, which so successfully obstructed immigration enforcement in the past, has had at least to pretend to support border control.
This change has manifested itself in many ways. The USA Patriot Act, last year's major piece of antiterrorism legislation, contained immigration- related provisions -- including one that gave the INS and ...