Charlotte Observer Immigration Series

The Charlotte Observer is running an intersting immigration series.  An editorial in the Sunday edition begins as follows:

The fact that politics and politicians have gotten in the way of a fair and consistent U.S. immigration policy should come as no surprise. But on today’s front page, Observer reporters Tim Funk and Danica Coto provide an eye-opening glimpse into how much political favoritism has molded the U.S. immigration system. It has become a complicated, somewhat arbitrary “patchwork.” That fact has made reform that much tougher. It doesn’t help that, as our reporters detail, “fairness has never been a requirement or a tradition in fashioning U.S. immigration law.” In fact, the law has been so loosey-goosey that it freely allows Congress to discriminate for and against any group. In 1882, lawmakers used it to ban Chinese immigration, and didn’t lift the ban until 1943 when China was useful as an American ally during World War II.

Click here for the full editorial.   For the series, click here. Rregistration is required to view the stories.

KJ