The National Farmers Unionn warned last month, for instance, that there are few alternatives to immigration if Britain is to prevent a labor shortage that could damage agriculture.
Audrey Macklin, chair of the international human rights law program at the University of Toronto, told VICE News she was shocked to learn about Mohammed's case and said it highlights a broken immigration system that should examine alternatives to immigration detention.
Mr. Shurtleff, 54, is probably the most prominent politician among an emerging generation of Republicans trying to stake out an alternative to restrictionist immigration laws modeled on Arizona's.
Since then, the few work visas of limited issuance that exist today are inadequate to provide a viable legal alternative to unauthorized immigration.
The lawsuit could be an alternative to keeping immigration measures in the DHS bill, because it would allow Republicans to do something about Obama's actions without getting the blame -- fairly or unfairly -- for a DHS shutdown.
Yet while the GOP may be united in opposition to Mr Obama, the party remains divided on an alternative approach to immigration reform.
After years of high economic growth and low unemployment, the alternative to high recent immigration may well have been more off-shoring, rising inflation and falling international competitiveness.
In an article titled "If You Want Strawberry Fields Forever, You Need Migrant Labor," Nickelsburg offers an alternative to the present immigration quandary.
These findings point strongly to the health benefits of considering alternatives to held immigration detention, such as community based processing.
