The Senate last week failed to advance an immigration-reform bill, continuing a trend of futility stretching back decades. The last serious immigration-law overhaul was in 1986, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, and its failure to stem the tide of illegal immigration helped discredit future attempts.
But the issue won’t go away, and the recent surge in illegal crossings at the southern border has moved the issue to the center of the 2024 presidential contest. A Wall Street Journal poll conducted in March found that, in seven swing states, immigration ranked as one of voters’ top two concerns. Americans are right to be worried, and it’s wrong to defend mass violations of U.S. law, but the unfortunate reality is that there’s no easy fix.
Many Americans fear that foreign-born workers will take jobs away from native-born workers, but immigrants often do the lower-paying, physically demanding, less desirable types of work that keep businesses afloat. “The work of the U.S. citizen serving a table in a restaurant is complemented by the work of a possibly unauthorized worker in the back of the restaurant,” Michael Clemens, an economist at George Mason University, told the Washington Post. “Neither of these jobs can happen without the other.”
Trump in a recent interview with Time magazine estimated that 15 million people are in the country illegally, and he said that in a second term he would launch a mass deportation operation using local police, the National Guard and, if necessary, military force.
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