"I'm running for office, For Pete's sake, I can't have illegals" was both a cynical read on Romney's undocumented landscaper problem and an entirely accurate one.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program emerged as a band-aid solution to a much bigger undocumented immigration problem that Congress has tried and failed to address repeatedly since 2001 through something called the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (Dream Act).
I also assumed that he would have implemented policies by now that would have gotten us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, curtailed F.B.I. power to spy on American citizens, and developed a more humane policy with regard to the complex undocumented-immigrant problem.
And in New York, where the number of people with no health insurance is nearing 27percentt, not including undocumented immigrants, the problem is all the more urgent, patients and practitioners say.
The result has been a paralysis not only at the White House but on Capitol Hill, complicating the chances for an ultimate resolution of how to protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants, the problem underlying the shutdown.
What is the problem, undocumented?
Schoevers et al 3 studied the health situation and specific health problems of undocumented female migrants in the Netherlands, concluding that psychological problems were highly prevalent but seldom mentioned spontaneously.
Barbara Van't Hof, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Undocumented aliens are a problem in this country.
We need to address the problem of undocumented aliens in this country by offering a pathway to legal residency, by reducing economic disparities with our southern neighbours, and by doing more to control our southern border.
But Rubio doesn't want to end his immigration reform plan by just fixing the problem of undocumented immigrants; he wants to eliminate the current legal immigration lottery system and "[make] our legal immigration system a merit-based system that encourages innovators".
