Queueless On Immigration by Shikha Dalmia

The anti-immigrant crowd frequently condemns undocumented immigrants who failed to wait in line.  However, they generally fail to note that, for many unskilled workers, there is no line for them to wait in under U.S. immigration law.  Shikha Dalmia makes this point in an article that begins as follows:

For two decades, immigration bashers have stymied any attempt to regularize the status of illegal aliens in this country by employing one, single trope against them: they are queue-jumpers who illegally crossed the border ahead of those patiently waiting their turn.

But the trope is a fallacy based on a complete misstatement of U.S. immigration policy. There is no such line – a legal pathway to citizenship for unskilled workers. (emphasis added).

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KJ