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It’s not perfect, but it’s a start on immigration reform

As the debt ceiling showdown moves toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group has offered a path forward on another controversial issue: immigration.  Last Tuesday, a handful of Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber announced they would introduce the Dignity Act, ...

America needs both parties to secure the border

Donald Trump’s solution was to build a wall and insult migrants. Left off his playbook for curbing illegal immigration was any punishment for employers who hired undocumented workers. That would inconvenience farmers, he said.  As it turned out, the wall wasn’t built, and those ...

The ‘Stars and Stripes Express’

by Martin Schram At first glance, on the last Thursday in April, you might have thought President Joe Biden’s border crisis cabinet chiefs were belatedly but finally unveiling their master plan.  They had long known they needed to minimize the massive migrant surge everyone ...

Trump border policy spreads in Canada

by Karen Musalo and Audrey Macklin At almost 4,000 miles, the United States’ northern border is about twice as long as the U.S.-Mexico border — much of it wild, unmarked and dangerously cold for half the year. And yet, human smuggling and deaths at the U.S.-Canada border have not ...

Canada eating our lunch on needed immigration

There’s a reason many companies zealously try to safeguard and retain talent: It is time-consuming and complicated to train people well, and people are any company’s most valuable asset.  That simple lesson unfortunately doesn’t seem to have been learned by our leaders in ...