What Grassley and other conservatives don’t understand is that in order to solve illegal immigration, we need to fix the legal immigration system first. We’re never going to remedy the illegal immigration problem through greater emphasis on enforcement. An almost ninefold increase in the numbers of Border Patrol agents since 1980, more walls and fences to keep people out, and the aggressive enforcement of states like Arizona has barely stemmed the tide. Making legal immigration an easier and smoother process would reduce the need to waste time and resources on futile enforcement mechanisms. Our current system makes it virtually impossible for lower-skilled immigrants to legally live and work in the United States. There is no green card category for lower-skilled immigrants, and current guest-worker visas are so regulated and expensive that very few migrants can use them to temporarily work here.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:30:10 +0000
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