Feb 6, 2011

Immigration Reality vs. Politics: Case for reform: New studies explain why state-based immigration laws aren't the answer | Editorial

This Houston Chronicle editorial lays out the realities - as documented by the 2010 census and other recent studies - of Hispanic immigrants (illegal as well as legal) being an integral part of the U.S. population, economy and politics and, thus, not something to be dealt with by punitive state laws motivated by distorting fears and demagoguery.


Case for reform: New studies explain why state-based immigration laws aren't the answer | Editorial | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle "National immigration legislation, held hostage by contentious partisan politics for the past decade, seems farther than ever from enactment. Yet new Census figures and studies by several nonprofit groups indicate it is the necessary alternative to piecemeal local and state initiatives."

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