Migrant work permits are no real answer to New York's crisis but just...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Not that most who are denied asylum then leave on their own: Among other disasters, this road leads to a fast-growing population of people existing "in the dark," knowing they're eligible for deportation if they come to the attention of any authority.
43% : Speeding up work papers would only add to the attraction, pumping the numbers who come and apply for asylum -- and thereby increasing the delay in resolving the claim from four years to five and then 10 and then effectively infinity.
34% : Yet 90%-plus of the "seekers" will never qualify for asylum: They have no real case for it under the law; they're only saying they intend to seek asylum because they've learned that those magic words will likely get them waved across the border.

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