By Karoun Demirjian, CQ Staff
The prospect of comprehensive immigration overhaul legislation died a public death in June 2007, but the notion of targeted immigration changes has continued to live on in proposals seeking to provide special help for narrow categories of foreigners, one at a time.
The debate over the E-Verify program is less one about statistics, or even policy, than it is about two states of mind.
One says nobody should have to prove to the government that they are qualified to work in the United States. The government should have to prove they are not.
The other says that people have to be sorted out in order to enforce the law, and both must be examined to separate the legal from the illegal.
Those points of view aren't even mutually exclusive. But neither side gives the other an inch.
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