U.S. needs a productive solution to the problem of those who entered country clandestinely

It makes no sense because it puts a burden on the family members left behind. It makes no sense because it takes a working, tax-paying individual off the job and warehouses them in a detention facility — a facility better used to incarcerate people who do harm to others.

The effort and cost associated with rounding up and detaining “illegal” immigrants is best spent on those who are criminals or fugitives. The way to address the legal and status issues raised by otherwise law-abiding and employed “undocumented” people is in Congress, not in immigration facilities.”*

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