re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We need comprehensive and humane immigration policies and procedures.

But there are too many interests who do not want to see that: they depend on a pool of cheap, easily exploited laborers who are too terrified of being deported to report the abuses perptrated against them.

it is a moral failure that it takes years for anyone to legal immigrate to the US and damn near a decade to become a citizen. It should not take more than a year to legally immigrate, and it shouldn’t take more than 5 to become a citizen. Then again, I’m about as close to an old fashioned open borders libertarian type that you’ll find on immigration, so…