Canada, New Zealand and Australia have thought a lot about immigration policy and a more merit-based point system is what they use
I would just note that I am glad Senator Leahy is going to be on the conference committee and maybe he can--that is real...
Some critics have said that this program amounts to the selling of a national birth right.
So these provide incentives to make people be interested in the program.
I think you're raising some important questions. E-Verify is not strong enough.
If the President doesn't want this to happen it's not going to happen.
I salute you for doing so.
I encouraged him to use the fingerprint.
That's how you catch criminals today, technologically, really.
The reason is, I think it's pretty clear: lack of political will, political pressure on Members of Congress.
I think, as you noted, 5 percent, people estimate, of workers in America are illegal, so this is not over-catching the p...