U.S. Immigration Patterns Are The Result Of Unintended Consequences, Not Policy: Report

A better legal farm worker law 50 years ago would have made our present immigrant "problem" non existent.     - - Donna Poisl

By Andrew Becker

U.S. policies and laws aimed at improving the nation's immigration system have unintentionally spurred more immigrants - authorized or not - to stay in the United States, according to a new paper released today.

The paper, "Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy," released by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, seeks to explain the reasons behind the surge in immigrants from Latin America since 1965, placing blame on the elimination of a legal - but vilified - migrant worker program, intervention in wars in various Latin American countries and more difficulties in entering - legally or otherwise - the United States.
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