Good Sense on Immigration Among Republicans Is Not Dead: New at Reason

Finally, Republicans have come up with a decent plan to fix immigration, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia. Or at least some of them have. Wisconsin’s Sen. Ron Johnson introduced a bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee to give states more authority in recruiting foreign workers and Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck in the House. Their bills, which are modeled after Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program, would give states a set quota to sponsor foreigners that best meet their local labor needs. They are modest, to be sure. But they are still a giant step in the right direction because they at least eschew the zero-sum logic of fences and walls. They also sidestep Washington’s messy politics that have stymied reform and let states make their own bets about immigrants.

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