Mark Steyn, legal immigrant, on the Senate's new immigration "compromise" :: Hugh Hewitt

"HH: It’s Hugh Hewitt on a dark day for the country and the Republican Party, May 17th, 2007, the unveiling of a disastrous immigration “compromise.” It’s really amnesty lite, force fed, tastes terrible. Here to talk about it, Mark Steyn, Columnist to the World. Mark, we don’t have many details, but every one that we have, every one, is bad news. What do you think of this “compromise?”
MS: Yes, I don’t think it is a compromise, because I think essentially, the political class in this country are at odds with the vast majority of voters. This has become one of those things, in the same way that the European issue is in the United Kingdom, where both parties have decided that they know better than the electorate. And the electorate would like secure borders, and the electorate would like controlled, legal immigration, but the political class have decided they know best."

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