Latin American Trade And Immigration Reform
The Need to Include Trade Reform in Comprehensive Immigration Reform This year, immigration reform will again be debated in Congress. There will be those who want to close our borders and penalize without exception and there will be those who wish to open our borders and allow for mass legalization. I am extremely wary of each of these proposals and all they fail to address the root causes of immigration. And without addressing the causes of immigration, any solution based solely on the affect of immigration can be effective or truly humane. Progressive groups are pushing for mass legalization and understandably so, because there are now 11.9 million people living and working in the shadows, [1] under constant threat of abuse, penalization, or expulsion, despite their contributions to our society and a rate of criminal conduct lower than that of US citizens. [2] These people deserv...