In the immigration debate in the U.S. Senate, all of the attention is on amnesty for some 11.5 million illegal aliens, and on whether and how this could be conditioned on having secured the southern border. As a writer in the Wall Street Journal pointed out on Saturday, a more important question is how to […]
President Obama says now’s the time for immigration reform. Easier said than done, obviously. One question: If we have lived with illegal immigration and its consequences for 40 or 50 years, what makes dealing with it so urgent now? But let’s look at the details. An estimated 11 million illegal immigrants are believed to be […]
Immigration: Phrases don’t help
In the immigration debate, it might help if we all started being clear about what we are talking about, and about what can and can’t be done.
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