The crisis at the southern border has given the OP an opportunity to show they can make a difference. Will they wait until next year to do so?
America has always been a land of refuge and will continue to be so. That is the easy part of any debate about refugee and asylum issues.
Today, the U.S. has needlessly made the administration of providing refugee protection confusing by creating two separate paths and processes: An alien overseas applies for refugee protection, while an alien at our border or inside the U.S. applies for asylum.
If the number of individuals arrested along our southern border were to form their own city, it would be the fifth largest city in the United States.
To overcome this crisis, we must rethink our asylum processes at the border and our deficient legal immigration system.
Mexico is Texas’ largest trading partner, and instituting policy that will detrimentally affect that trade is unacceptable.
As long as both Republicans and Democrats come to the table and agree not to dig in their heels, I am hopeful.
Increasingly, those starting new U.S. businesses are foreign-born.
Because our native born population is aging, we cannot prosper in the global economy of the 21st century if we do not open our borders to others from abroad in the years ahead.