This ICE Crackdown Is Making the Case for Real Immigration Reform

One unintended consequence of President Trump’s militarized mass deportation campaign may be to demonstrate that the iron fist alone can never resolve America’s immigration challenges. And that, ironically, may open the door to a more balanced alternative. One proposal is already quietly attracting bipartisan support in Congress.

Trump’s hardline approach to undocumented immigrants suffers from a fundamental mismatch between costs and benefits. The surge of masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into cities nationwide has already generated enormous economic, political and social disruption.