Michael Jones-Correa, professor of government at Cornell and the author of several books on immigration, including “Latino lives in America: Making it Home,” argues that the House of Representatives’ piecemeal approach to immigration reform, highlighted Tuesday when GOP leaders floated support for a version of the DREAM Act, is a mistake.
Jones-Correa says:
“Though it's early in the current House debate on immigration, the House approach suggests that they see those arriving to the U.S. through the lens of ‘good immigrants’ vs ‘bad immigrants.’ In other words, they see ‘good’ immigrants with children arriving in the U.S. without papers – but having proved their worth deserving of citizenship versus those ‘bad’ immigrants arriving as adults, regardless of their length of stay or accomplishments in this country, as undeserving.
“This easy division of good/bad, deserving/undeserving ignores the reality that these two false categories of immigrants share the same families, often including citizen spouses, children and relatives as well. If the House really wanted to maximize the economic and social contributions of immigrants, both those with papers and those without, they would back broader immigration reform rather than the piecemeal approach they are favoring.”
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