How legal immigration might solve two of America’s toughest problems
CNNCNN — Two of the nation’s most intractable problems might have the same solution – if the idea was not so politically radioactive. In the eyes of the administration, and like-minded immigration advocates, it takes a plausible carrot to create an effective stick “If you have legitimate consequences for unlawful entry combined … with easy to access legal pathways, these two things together reduce irregular migration,” said one administration official, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal policy deliberations. “The direction of what we’re looking at in the labor force participation rates … is going to increase the pressure on businesses to find workers,” Copeland said. “But that’s not where we are in in this political debate.” The Biden Administration hasn’t much stressed the case that legal immigration could ease the crunch in the labor market. The Biden Administration, the GOP officials argue in their suit, “under the false pretense of preventing aliens from unlawfully crossing the border between the ports of entry, has effectively created a new visa program — without the formalities of legislation from Congress.” That suit is following a well-worn trail Republicans have used to block other Biden administration initiatives, with the case now before a Trump-appointed district judge in Texas and then facing review by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the nation’s most staunchly conservative.