When the crime is the search for a better life

The article argues that the United States should tailor its immigration policies to local realities rather than global fears, noting the nation's historical benefit from immigration.
This nation is so large, and has benefited so hugely from immigration, that it should tailor its policies to local reality, not global fear.
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