The Bracero Program, which drew hundreds of thousands of Mexican laborers to toil in American fields from 1942 to 1964, left a searing memory of injustice. The program has been blamed for depressing farm wages and abusing immigrant workers. So I wasn’t surprised that some critics took a dim view […]
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Can anything be done about illegal immigration? Donald J. Trump’s proposal to end illegal immigration — to build a supposedly impregnable wall — is a fake solution. For all intents and purposes, the wall is already there: a fence across large stretches of the southwestern border complemented by drones, sensors […]
WASHINGTON If America is a melting pot of cultures and immigrants from around the world continue to plant flag in this country, that to a singular law of 1965, as he approached his half century of life, it is, paradoxically, in part due guilty of the current chaos. The Immigration […]
PRINCETON, N.J. — Two in three U.S. adults favor a plan to allow immigrants who are living illegally in the U.S. to remain in the country and become citizens if they meet certain requirements over time. Far fewer support allowing those immigrants to remain in the U.S. to work for […]