Immigration Reform: Strategies for Legislative Action
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Benjamin Marquez
This paper deals with the current prospects and potential problems with passage of immigration reform. Rather than recommend legislative and programmatic changes that many other commentators have posed, this paper discusses the possible legislative strategies for accomplishing changes in an immigration system that most believe is in dire need of reform. Specifically it asks if the various complex issues involved in immigration should be considered as separable and discrete issues, subject to serial and incremental legislation, or, as currently being conceived by the Obama administration, as a comprehensive package of reforms. We begin by describing and analyzing the core set of issues defining immigration policy. We then discuss various theories of issue preferences and how those theories have implications for the choice of relevant strategies for the immigration debate. Finally we present evidence based on recent congressional voting patterns and the positions taken by the most important interest groups.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- The Politics of Immigration Reform
- Article
- Navigating an American Minefield: The Politics of Illegal Immigration
- Immigration Reform: Strategies for Legislative Action
- Immigration & Immigration Reform in the United States: An Outsider's View
- Taking Immigration Federalism Seriously
- Why "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" Is Not Comprehensive
- Defining the Circle of We: American Identity and Immigration Policy
- Immigration, Diversity, and Welfare Chauvinism
- Making Change: A Six-Month Review
- Do the Strategists Know Something We Don't Know? Campaign Decisions in American Elections
- Review
- Review of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
- Review of America and Its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower
- A Rebuttal to O'Connor
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Introduction
- The Politics of Immigration Reform
- Article
- Navigating an American Minefield: The Politics of Illegal Immigration
- Immigration Reform: Strategies for Legislative Action
- Immigration & Immigration Reform in the United States: An Outsider's View
- Taking Immigration Federalism Seriously
- Why "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" Is Not Comprehensive
- Defining the Circle of We: American Identity and Immigration Policy
- Immigration, Diversity, and Welfare Chauvinism
- Making Change: A Six-Month Review
- Do the Strategists Know Something We Don't Know? Campaign Decisions in American Elections
- Review
- Review of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
- Review of America and Its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower
- A Rebuttal to O'Connor
