OUR VAST IMMIGRATION BACKLOG

How about we make legal-immigrant applicants the priority over illegal aliens for once?
How about we clear the obstructions to the "path to citizenship" for those who followed the rules and came here the right way before we start paving the "path to citizenship" for those who did it the wrong way?

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You want "comprehensive immigration reform"? Start with border control, reliable adjudications, consistent interior enforcement and efficient and effective deportation policies.

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LEGAL APPLICANTS FACE YEARS-LONG WAITS
Michelle Malkin

NYPOST.COM
June 27, 2007 -- SENATE Majority Leader Harry Reid boasts of his compassion for "undocumented Americans." President Bush wants understanding for "newcomers" without papers. The so-called Grand Bargainers on both sides of the aisle in the Senate are pushing forward this week with their massive plan to "regularize" the unregularized and bring in hundreds of thousands of extra foreign guest workers on top of the ones who are already here or have been waiting for approval for years.
Why can't anyone in Washington pinpoint what's wrong with this picture?
Over the last several years, I've noted the following immigration backlogs that continue to plague our homeland-security system:

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