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The Immigration and Naturalization Service went out of existence on March 1, 2003, when Congress officially split the INS into two separate entities: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), both under the umbrella of the new Department of Homeland Security. The idea was to make border enforcement (the job of ICE) more effective by separating it from the very different process of welcoming and assimilating legal immigrants (the work of CIS).

Unfortunately, our border control entity still seems to lack a brisk

law enforcement mentality. Russ Knocke, the director of ICE's Office of Public Affairs, recently told a panel of Washington, D.C.'s Center for Immigration Studies that President Bush's amnesty proposal for illegal aliens is really "not amnesty. It's a one-time, regulated opportunity."

San Diego Border Patrol agent T. J. Bonner, now president of the National Border Patrol Council, responded that "Webster's defines amnesty as 'an authority pardoning people tier whatever reason, a large group of people ...

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