Jon Kay at Centerfield offers a fairly
common sense idea on how immigration should work:
I think we should grant permanent residency status to any
non-felon who applies who has a job or is married to or the kid of another
resident and revoke it only if all of the above stay untrue for a year. A
120-day job search visa should be handed out to anybody at most every four
years. The naturalization wait for residents should be reduced to a uniform
three years for everybody, not just residents married to citizens. People
already in the system should have their total wait reduced to three years,
and be granted citizenship if they’ve been waiting longer.
I don’t necessarily disagree. I think that de jure immigration
policies need to be relaxed, to better reflect the reality of the world we
live in. My sole concern is that such a relaxing of the law needs to be
accompanied by actual, effective enforcement of the border and immigration
laws.
Otherwise, we might as well throw open the border, and enter into a
Schengen-like arrangement with Mexico and Canada.