NATIONAL REVIEW
By Mark Kirkorian
October 2, 2012
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329067/illegal-dream-amnesty-creates-facts-ground-mark-krikorian
Romney has said that he won’t revoke
the two-year amnesty the Obama administration is illegally dispensing
through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. I
called this a month ago, not because I have secret sources in the Romney campaign but because there was no chance whatsoever of any other outcome.
The key, though, is this sentence by Romney: “Before those visas have
expired we will have the full immigration reform plan that I’ve
proposed.” The shape of that “reform plan” is not preordained; he’s
suggested that he wants to simplify the whole process, eliminate the
visa lottery, speed family-based immigration, staple green cards to the
diplomas of foreign students getting advanced degrees in STEM fields,
and encourage self-deportation of illegals through mandatory E-Verify.
Some of that’s good, some isn’t, and some requires more elaboration.
But I’d suggest a more modest approach. Rather than attempting
“comprehensive” reform, whatever shape it would take, try instead a few
bites at a time. As a first step, try green cards for those aliens who
have benefited from Obama’s illegal DACA amnesty in exchange for
Representative Lamar Smith’s mandatory E-Verify bill. A second step
could be Smith’s STEM bill, to reallocate the 55,000 visas for the Visa
Lottery to foreign STEM grads. These would be significant but discrete
measures that don’t try to construct 2,000-page comprehensive schemes to
rewrite our vast immigration system. A little modesty is called for in
policymaking, as hilariously naive as that may sound.
www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
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