Immigration Overhaul - (by HERMAN BADILLO)

“It is a shame that the immigration bill was effectively killed in the Senate.

The bill would have provided recognition of the millions of illegal immigrants here in America. But even if the bill had passed, it would not have been effective. That is because it overlooked a problem that nobody seems to want to confront: The people who are coming here from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean are escaping economic disasters. Their migration stems from the inescapable knowledge that they are unable to feed themselves or their families in their native lands and that there is no economic program whatsoever in place to improve their standard of living. They are fleeing economic deprivation.”

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