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[quote=Anonymous]1. No one really wants to fix this politically I think. It's good for Rs to not have a fix and for Ds it lets them keep campaigning on it.

That said, "common sense immigration reform" would include...

2. Stop the abuse of the asylum process.
- If we decide anyone living in a poor country qualifies, it's defacto open borders. 
- If we decide that it's not reasonable for people to try to "flee" to another village in their own country, in the next country they come to or the 3rd country they come to and instead "need" to all come here...it's going to amount to open borders in practice. 
- I forget which podcast it was (NY Daily? This American Life?) but they ran a really interesting piece about huge and wide-spread scamming of the asylum process by companies set up in various cities' Chinatowns.

3. Acknowledge that the costs/benefits of most low-wage immigrants are not being fairly shared. 
- Local communities are left to shoulder the higher schooling, policing and ER costs while most of the benefits people are normally talking about in tax collection accrue at the federal level. 
- Analyses of the economic impact of immigrants that carve out calculations of the costs of their children on the premise that the kids are citizens are dishonest and reinforce the suspicious by those with concerns that the elite "don't get it". Providing those kids with school, food, doctors is absolutely the right thing to do once they're here; but it comes at a cost that would not otherwise exist if their parents had not come. 
- Benefits from lower childcare, lawncare, restaurant costs tend to flow to more well off families while those with low skills are forced to endure more competition for jobs and you don't see the type of lifting of wages you'd otherwise see to fill the jobs if employers were left with no other options. 
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