Letter: Immigration should be fixed by now

Deseret News

I read the article of the hearing before the Utah Supreme Court to determine whether or not resident aliens, often called Dreamers, can be admitted to the Utah State Bar and I am furious. Furious at the timidity at the U.S. Justice Department intervening in a suit which should clearly be a state matter under the 10^th Amendment. Furious that the matter of immigration which, to my personal knowledge, has been festering for at least 70 years has not been resolved long since. Furious that for lack of goodwill the issue has been allowed to become untenable in the service of crass political and economic interests.

I realize that the issue of immigration has many sides and multiple facets. But I also know that those sides have been studied and discussed and probed and dissected to the point that there cannot be any unknowns left. All that remains is that people of good will determine to find a bipartisan way to resolve the matter and come to an agreement. Never mind the scoundrels who seek advantage by keeping the boil un-lanced.

I firmly believe that if a group of congressmen and women from both parties resolved to set aside personal and party advantage, they could within six months find a workable solution which would satisfy the majority of the American people. I also firmly believe that any member of Congress who is not spending a part of each and every day working in a bipartisan way to resolve the immigration deadlock should pack up and go home.

This is an issue which is overripe to the point of odium.

Thomas Brown

Murray

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