Donald Kerwin: Crossing the Line: From Enforcing the Law to Targeting People

Donald Kerwin. Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies, in “Crossing the Line: From Enforcing the Law to Targeting People“ on Huffington Post questions the deportation-by-attritrion approach to immigrtaion embraced by the Arizona and Alabama immigration laws:

“A new policy consensus on smarter and fairer enforcement would target violations of the law, not immigrants and their families. It would seek to tailor enforcement measures to the federal government’s authority to determine who can enter, who must leave, and who can stay. It would recognize that not all restrictions against immigrants implicate the federal government’s authority to regulate immigration, and that the U.S. Constitution applies to persons, not just to citizens.”

KJ