Thursday, December 29, 2011

Immigration Wars: How to Waste Money and Treat People Cruelly

We sure do need immigration laws that will help everyone, this is ridiculous. - - Donna Poisl

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL

We have written a lot on our editorial page about immigration policy – or rather the lack of a coherent, comprehensive immigration policy. Sometimes big national issues can boil down to one person’s story.

Lawrence Downes, who covers immigration issues for the editorial page, pointed out an article today by Nina Bernstein about a Mexican immigrant in Brooklyn, a waiter named Angel, whose kidneys are failing. Dialysis keeps him alive. His brother is willing to donate a kidney, but Angel can’t get a transplant because he is here illegally.
Click on the headline above to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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