Slightly surprising to see a fairly sound analysis from The Daily News, which usually stakes out a position noticeably to the left of any other New York daily.
The author here is right. And this is an opportunity to make a grand bargain: the same package of legislation that amnesties people whose violation of our immigration laws was committed by their parents in bringing them here, rather than by a wilful act on their own part should include enforcement provisions, an end to chain migration, and heck, funding for the wall. While ending chain migration represents a cut to legal immigration, it could even include an increase in legal quotas. While we're at it, toss in provisions to end the abuse of the H1-B visa program by tightening requirements for showing no Americans could fill the position, and perhaps forbidding H1-B hiring by companies that fired or laid off too many American employees in the past year (or two). Actual comprehensive immigration reform, not in the Newspeak meaning of throwing open the borders, but in the English meaning of the phrase, with lots of items for the restrictionist side along with a properly Constitutional handling of the "dreamer" problem for the open border types.
