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In truth, undocumented migration is not an aberration of
“normal” immigration. It is the inevitable result of any general policy of
immigration restriction.
By Mae Ngai, New York Times
January 28, 2018
Congress has about another month before Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented
immigrants from deportation (and which President Trump terminated in
September), officially comes to an end. It remains to be seen whether Congress
will legalize these so-called Dreamers, and what concessions will be made in
return. But this much is certain: Any deal will include appropriations for
enhanced border enforcement.
We’ve been here before. The last major immigration reform
bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which was signed by
President Ronald Reagan, legalized nearly three million undocumented immigrants
in exchange for increased enforcement along the United States-Mexico border.[…]
Read the full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/opinion/immigrations-border-enforcement-myth.html
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