Immigration innovation

The Senate reaches a creative compromise, but that doesn't mean it'll ever become law.

After years of bruising debate over "amnesty" -- the misleading term preferred by legalization opponents -- it's remarkable that the Z visa gained bipartisan acceptance. There seems to be mounting appreciation for the fact that 12 million people living in legal shadows is corrosive to the rule of law.

Also encouraging is the agreement's point system for green cards, attempting to quantify the attributes most desirable among would-be immigrants. ... Full Story »

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Jerry Carroll
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by Jerry Carroll - Oct. 1, 2008

Hardly anyone this side of moveon.org pays attention to the LA Times editorial page. Its lefty slant, always predictable, appears here in this paragraph: "After years of bruising debate over "amnesty" — the misleading term preferred by legalization opponents — it's remarkable that the Z visa gained bipartisan acceptance. There seems to be mounting appreciation for the fact that 12 million people living in legal shadows is corrosive to the rule of law." Why is "amnesty" misleading? People have broken the law, but now it is to be overlooked. And the fact they are "living in legal shadows" goes back to the fact ttheir first act in this country was to violate a sovereign border. The left in this country would prefer not to have any border whatsoever and allow in any who want.

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