If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

States were barred from financing their immigration systems with specific taxes on immigrants and transportation companies, leaving the continued existence of these state institutions to the general state fisc or the generosity of private charitable organizations interested in immigrant welfare and integration. The resource strain on states and charitable organizations placed enormous pressure on Congress to enact federal law.