Immigration reform should stay on front burner

Voices of reason, even if they are from the political wilderness.

Immigration reform should stay on front burner: "We understand that during tough economic times, the natural reaction is to close the borders and look inward. Yet, the irony of anti-immigration sentiment, which fears a loss of jobs for Americans if more immigrant workers enter the United States, is that it is fiscally more prudent to legalize, insure, employ, reunite and educate our immigrants than to keep families apart." Nov. 4, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle, OpEd by Rep. Michael Honda, D-San Jose, who is chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and Scott Fujita, a member of the executive board of the National Football League Players Association, and a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns.