Free pass given to illegal aliens.

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Some 28 illegal alien workers arrested recently during an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement worksite effort at the Yamato Engine Specialist plant in Bellingham, Wash., have been released and granted work authorization. This event--the most revealing in a recent series of actions signaling a major shift in policy--now confirms that the Obama Administration has abandoned meaningful immigration enforcement in the workplace, contends Dan Stein, president of FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), Washington, D.C.

Instead of expanding immigration enforcement at the workplace against all those who have broken U.S. laws, the Administration has indicated it will focus its efforts only against employers, laments Stein. He charges that this sends a clear message to illegal aliens that there are no penalties for getting caught, possibly even rewards in the form of work authorization. "The actions of the...