Ed Krayewski on a Libertarian Solution to Immigration Reform

Immigration reform has been the Sisyphean policy
goal of the last few years. And the current immigration reform
bill—more than 800 pages long and stacked with deal sweeteners
like massive new border security spending—isn’t going anywhere
anytime soon. Perhaps something smaller and more libertarian
would have a better chance of passing Congress, Ed Krayewski
argues.

It wouldn’t have the kind of carve-outs and goodies that attract
some lawmakers. But a bill that reflected a respect for civil and
economic rights and limited government could garner
substantial support. Krayweski imagines what such a bill would
include—and what it wouldn’t. A libertarian solution to
immigration reform would not offer a complete “pathway to
citizenship,” but rather a path to legalization, he says. It
would focus on a specific solution to the specific problem
illegal immigrants have: an inability to participate normally in
the economy and in society because of a lack of government
documents.

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