by James H. Walsh

About the author: James H. Walsh served as Associate General Counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1983 to 1994. He has written extensively on immigration issues.

Three ways to stop foreign terrorists include lobbying for twenty-first century immigration laws, demanding their enforcement, and selecting strict constructionist judges.

To date, whenever the United States has strayed from the Constitution, a historical event has occurred demanding a correction of our course. The September 11 terrorist attacks are surely such an event. Recent years have witnessed a blurring in the separation of powers of the federal government, in no area more than in immigration.

The Congress, whose charge it is to pass legislation beneficial to all people in the nation, instead has produced muddled, unenforceable immigration laws, tailored to appease special interests. In turn, lobbyists of these interests...