Immigration reform, not crackdowns, would help America thrive | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Twenty years ago, Congress worked on a commonsense path to citizenship that included fines for breaking immigration laws for those who deserve to remain in this country, but politics got in the way.
48% : The prohibitive cost of such a project, estimated at from $86 billion to $315 billion a year, may limit what ICE can do, given its current $230 million budget shortfall, but Trump typically does just enough to claim he kept a promise.Being left out of the conversation is the need to impose higher sanctions not just on employers but other sections of American society that find profit in taking advantage of the undocumented status of migrants.
39% : Meanwhile, when federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials do get tough with companies hiring undocumented immigrants, it is the workers rather than their supposedly unwitting employers who typically bear the brunt of any punishment.
9% : On immigration, Donald Trump offers only division and disaster | EditorialMuch worse can be expected if President-elect Donald Trump fulfills a campaign promise to begin mass deportations of anyone without proper authorization to live in the United States.

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