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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (3314)	4/12/2006 3:59:26 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Sounds like a good first step to legalize current wave without allowing the practice to go forward. Most countries do it the new canada way. See below for a different take on immigration that i cant get anyone on this thread to bite on. If this fella is right we are going about it all wrong. Massey questions U.S. immigration policies in New York Times op-ed <Posted 04/04/2006 15:07> Douglas S. Massey, a Woodrow Wilson School Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, authored the op-ed entitled "The Wall That Keeps Illegal Workers In," for the April 4 edition of the New York Times. In the op-ed Massey disputes the widely held belief among Americans that the Mexican-American border is or ever was "out of control," and in addition argues that U.S. policies have been counter-productive in alleviating what immigration problems do exist. According to Massey, until the early 1990s illegal immigrants from Mexico entered the U.S. through El Paso or San Diego, both of which have significant Hispanic populations. As such, visibility of illegal entrance went largely unnoticed. The last decade however ushered in a change in border crossings when the U.S. Border Patrol built steel fences south of San Diego and implemented tougher border enforcement throughout the El Paso area. As a result migrants began going to more remote locations along the border in Arizona. "Unlike the old crossing sites, these new locations were sparsely settled, so the sudden appearance of thousands of Mexicans attracted considerable attention and understandably generated much agitation locally," resulting in new policy initiatives that increased border militarization. Such measures Massey argues have had little effect in reducing the number of immigrant apprehensions, and in fact have served to discourage immigrants from migrating back to Mexico. Massey states, "The United States is now locked into a perverse cycle whereby additional border enforcement further decreases the rate of return migration, which accelerates undocumented population growth, which brings calls for harsher enforcement." Ultimately, Massey asserts, "We need an immigration policy that seeks to manage the cross-border flows of people that are inevitable in a global economy, not to repress them through unilateral police actions."