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Volume 6: Issue 2
Let Our National Interest Guide Our Immigration Policy
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As the debate over the President’s immigrant guest worker proposal intensifies, there has been much rhetoric from all sides about “secure borders, open doors.” A simplistic view of the debate depicts a bright-line divide between the “restrictionists” and the “pro-immigrants.” This view, reinforced by electoral politics and extremist ideology on both sides of the debate, does our nation a grave disservice. Keeping foreigners out or letting them in should not be the goal of our immigration policy. Rather, U.S. immigration policy should be a means to achieving our overall national interest of security, prosperity, and growth....