Fixing Immigration, Again
Let's Find a Way to Rely on Authorized Workers after this Round of Reform
Congress appears on the verge of passing some version of a comprehensive immigration reform bill likely to include a provision legalizing millions of unauthorized immigrants for the first time since landmark immigration reform did the same in the mid 1980s. Back then, backers of that legislative effort assured the nation that this was a one-time measure, but here we are again, much to the frustration of both immigration critics and immigration supporters (who don’t want immigrants to have to come without documentation, with all the hardship that entails). So, in …