We need to humanely deter people without visas and no realist claim to refugee status from crossing the border. This will not be cheap, easy, or rapid. But is i s necessary in order to turn the immigration issue into a question of how to recruit world talent.
This is an odd article, because in the first part you seem to be advocating for harsher punishments for migrants trying to cross the border to attain better living standards (the horror!) but then in the second part you examine all the complexities of immigration law and the migrants caught in its web without giving full due to the nefarious designs of the nativist GOP.
We need to humanely deter people without visas and no realist claim to refugee status from crossing the border. This will not be cheap, easy, or rapid. But is i s necessary in order to turn the immigration issue into a question of how to recruit world talent.
This is an odd article, because in the first part you seem to be advocating for harsher punishments for migrants trying to cross the border to attain better living standards (the horror!) but then in the second part you examine all the complexities of immigration law and the migrants caught in its web without giving full due to the nefarious designs of the nativist GOP.