Immigration “reforms’ might favor Asians over Latinos

“Keep out most new immigrants - except those needed as cheap labor for essential businesses. That’s the mandate public opinion polls are imposing on Congress this spring as uncertainty reigns over the shape of immigration reform.

Congress is responding. The package now most likely to pass figures to include provisions for vastly expanding fences along some parts of the Mexican border. It will also beef up the Border Patrol. And it will impose time limits on so-called guest workers, compelling them to return home after three or five or six years and stay there awhile before coming back into the United States. Okay, that last will only apply if it’s enforced, and similar immigration time limits never have been.”

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