Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Fine-tune strategies on illegal immigrants

This editorial talks about all the problems and some solutions for immigration reform. - - Donna Poisl

FREE PRESS EDITORIAL BOARD

U.S. immigration policies have worked about as well as Prohibition did in the 1920s. More than 11 million illegal immigrants now live in the U.S. -- roughly 4% of the nation's population. Despite a slight decrease since 2007, caused in part by a struggling U.S. economy, the number of illegal residents has tripled since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

In some circles, anti-immigration sentiments have reached near-hysteria. Opportunistic politicians everywhere, including Michigan -- with only about 110,000 illegal immigrants -- have tried to exploit fear and insecurity.
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