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  • Amnesties Undermine Immigration Laws

    01/02/2015 11:58:48 AM PST · by OddLane · 31 replies
    Portland Tribune ^ | January 1, 2015 | Elizabeth Van Staaveren
    Editor’s note: This guest column is in response to Lewis & Clark history professor Elliott Young’s Dec. 11 My View column, “President Obama got it half right on immigration.” “Our immigration system is broken” ... we hear this line repeatedly, and it’s usually cited as a reason for granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants. Rarely do we hear discussion of what broke our immigration system, but that’s a very important point to consider before attempting to “fix” the system. Lax to no enforcement of current immigration laws is why we now have 11 million or more undocumented immigrants in the country,...