A JUST, FAIR, AND COMPASSIONATE IMMIGRATION POLICY

It is well past time for our nation to come together and resolve its immigration crisis.(1) With an estimated 11-12 million men, women, and children living and working illegally in the United States, it has become a festering moral, social, and political crisis that is rending the social fabric of the nation in ways that are easier to rend than they are to mend. Despite the impasse in previous Congresses on immigration reform, this crisis is not insurmountable. Congress can and must devise a plan to bring these people out of the shadows. The more protracted the delay in action, the more severe the problem will become.