To be acceptable both in principle and in practice, and tocontribute to the objectives of comprehensive immigration reform, atemporary worker program must be truly temporary, not encourageillegal immigration, and not be an amnesty program.
Despite the widespread adoption of democratic elections andcivilian rule, and despite the development of nascent marketeconomies, Latin America is less stable and prosperous than it was10 years ago. If the Bush Administration wants to help alleviatesome the problems in the Western Hemisphere before they demandattention as the Middle East does, it must begin to support deeperreforms, update its security policy, and better articulate itsinterests in the region.
The United Nations continues its slow decline as a force on the world stage and will go the same way as the League of Nation sunless it is radically reformed and restructured.