FAR too much attention has been paid to Donald Trump’s vile words regarding immigrants from Mexico. Neither his words nor his ignorant, self-serving perspectives on the issue deserve repeating here.
Our hope, though, is the American public will pause to better understand the economics and human dimensions of immigration rather than falling prey to Trump’s sweeping, inaccurate and denigrating characterizations.
Unquestionably, immigrants have been coming to the United States without legal papers for decades — their coming and staying were made easy by our government, beginning with those who write the laws.
For nearly two decades, Congress purposely refrained from approving E-Verify, a proposal that would require all employers to verify the authenticity of worker-provided Social Security numbers.