2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 2017-10-05T09:41:10-05:00

Immigration should have as its goal integration, not disintegration or segregation. The immigrant should not only desire to assume the benefits but the responsibilities of joining into the full fellowship of the nation. By becoming a citizen, a perso...

2013-01-29T17:59:43-06:00

Legalize the people who are already here, with a permanent guest worker program, but make them ineligible for citizenship.   This gives the immigrants something substantial: they get the right to work, and their children will be citizens.  But ...

2011-08-18T13:53:59-05:00

Most of us opponents of a wall have focused on the idea that the wall is meant to "wall out" immigrants. But we just observed the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, a wall that was meant to, and did, "wall in" residents. I think I remember co-blogg...

2010-08-31T18:33:25-05:00

There are a lot of folks who think that a border fence is part of the "solution" for illegal immigration in the US. The problem with fences is that they work both ways. A fence now might seem like a good idea to keep people out; call me paranoid, bu...

2010-08-31T18:29:55-05:00

The very phrase “insecure borders” conjures an image of government failing at its most fundamental responsibility--namely, protecting citizens from invading marauders. People see in their minds’ eyes an America increasingly at risk of ...