What is it about?
The article is very timely. It offers a better, more effective way to reform the US immigration system than the unconstitutional, anti-family and economically disruptive policies of the second Trump administration. It takes immigration enforcement seriously, but recognizes the immense need for legal immigration reform, which for the Trump administration means stripping legal residents of status. It argues for policies based on widely recognized "national interests" -- economic, family, and humanitarian -- as defined by past US administrations of both parties.
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Why is it important?
The Trump administration does not appear to value immigrants or refugees. It has embarked on a mass deportation program that violates constitutional rights, and seeks to meet deportation quotas by deporting non-criminals, divesting legal immigrants of status, and denying asylum-seekers of the right to make a claim. Its enforcement tactics and the authorities used to justify them are unprecedented.
Perspectives
The article describes the values and interests that multiple US presidents have lifted up in supporting immigration legislation in the United States. In this case, the past charts a better way forward for the United States (and the world) than the policies currently ascendant in the United States.
Mr Donald Kerwin
University of Notre Dame
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This page is a summary of: National Interests and Common Ground in the US Immigration Debate: How to Legalize the US Immigration System and Permanently Reduce Its Undocumented Population, Journal on Migration and Human Security, June 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/233150241700500205.
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