Peggy Noonan: We Need Immigration Control

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NOONAN: “I think in his farewell address he said if a nation has to have walls, the walls should have doors; meaning those who want to come here, who have a compelling reason, who we can accept, get them in here -- it’s what we have always done; why would we stop this? Reagan thought, I think, in part that the desire to be an American, a hunger to be an American, the hunger to live here was to a certain degree an establishing rationale or a reason for you to be taken in. However, I’ll tell you, I think we need immigration control, and we need an Immigration Control Agency, of course we do. But it looks to me like this is a large agency that maybe has a very strong sense of what is possible for it in terms of its aggression. I’m wondering what could a president do right now, could this president do if he had a mind to, what two things could he do to make this all better on the ground and make ICE seem less intrusive and less obnoxious and less bullying.”