Pointed Barbed Wire, Still Missing the Point

A blogger over at the California Conservative writes today lauding the purported end of the so-called "catch and release" policy on the California-Mexico border. What the author and others with this stance neglect to mention is that as long as there is a market demand for this type of labor, we will still have thousands of people attempting to immigrate. It’s true that unlawful immigration is bad for immigrants and bad for our country. But enforcement as a solution is a dead end so long as the the difference between what a worker can earn abroad is so much lower than he or she can earn here.

A better solution, given the growing need for low-skilled labor here, is an orderly program for immigrant labor. This would go much farther to curbing our immigration "problem" than the solution that the California Conservative suggests in his allusion to the "landmines, barbed wire, armed guards, and concrete wall[s]" of communist Berlin. I don't know about you, but a country with that type of border policy is not one in which I'd want to live.

Read more here:
"U.S. To End 'Catch and Release' at Mexican Border"