Guest Columnist

Immigration Reform Trapped in Political Dualism

Orignally published at New America Media
By Roberto Lovato

Recent talk about “immigration reform” coming from Washington inspires some hope, some fear and lots of reminders about what I call “political-dualism”: the ability of a President or political party to simultaneously communicate opposing policies while delivering either no new policies or exceptionally bad ones.

As the Obama Administration prepares to take the reins of the massive and massively inefficient and broken immigration system, it is important to have clarity about the incontrovertible need to overcome the political dualism that created our immigration mess in the first place.

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Posted at 9:12 AM, Dec 02, 2008 in Immigration | Permalink | View Comments