U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Says Secure Border Will Make Immigration Reform

“Every time a Border Patrol officer is transporting a load of future housekeepers and landscapers to some place to be returned, he's not looking for drug dealers or drug loads,” Chertoff said. “So to me, total immigration reform that addresses economic migrants is actually an enforcement enabler because it lets us focus more on the people that we don't want in the country under any circumstances, namely the criminals and the dangerous folks.” Officials from Mexico's Foreign Relations Department and President Felipe Calderón's office said they had no immediate comment on Chertoff's remarks. Mexico has been pushing for years for a U.S. immigration accord. U.S. President George W. Bush has proposed a guest-worker program that would allow Mexicans living abroad to seek temporary work visas, but Congress has refused to back it. U.S. lawmakers instead have supported building more border walls and beefing up security. Find this article at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20070216-1155-mexico-us-security.html

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