When U.S. Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and John Kyl (R-Ariz.) get
together to write legislation, you know things are going to be
interesting. And watching the development of the most recent
iteration of an immigration reform bill was nothing short of
fascinating.
All the announced—and some of the as-yet
unannounced—presidential candidates either took predictable
positions or decided to wait for the polls to tell them what to
do.
The new bill was developed with the involvement of all sorts of
special interest groups and is predictably complicated. Such is the
business of legislation by compromise. If the new bill passes
in its current form, we will see immigration quotas increase
significantly; a new temporary worker program initiated; much
tougher border security; a new electronic system for employer
verification; and a path to citizenship for the 12 million
undocumented workers currently in the U.S. These are all elements
of immigration reform
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