New York Times Guest Essay by Jorge Loweree of the American Immigration Council

Jorge Loweree, managing director of programs and strategy at the American Immigration Council, has a terrific essay just published in the New York Times: Do Politicians Realize How Difficult and Rare Immigrating to the U.S. Legally Actually Is?

He writes:

“Elected leaders like to invoke this narrative that there’s an easy, “right” and a hard, “wrong” way to immigrate to the United States, because it makes the solution for fixing our broken immigration system seem simple. We just need more law-abiding people to get in the right line.

But the reality that is all too clear to immigrants navigating our byzantine system, and the lawyers and advocates who try to help them, is that there is no line to get into for a vast majority of people who wish to come to the United States. If the government is serious about securing the border, we have to make it easier for people to come through legal channels.”

You can read the full essay here.

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