Originally published in Pittsburgh Post Gazette
America's traditional view on immigration has been: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." As we head into the fall presidential elections, we're now hearing such promises as: "I will stop illegal immigration, triple border security and put in the surveillance and biometric tracking to secure the border." Not to mention the beautiful wall.
Immigration is again dead center in the political crosshairs. The thrust of the discussion is border security and illegal immigration rather than legal immigration. That's unfortunate.
Security and illegal immigration are important issues, of course, but our broken legal immigration system is probably more harmful to our nation. View the full article.
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