Daily Border Bulletin: Guest Workers Are Best Border Security, Republicans Seek More Border Control, Who's Crossing the Border?

Submitted by Emma Buckhout on 6/12/13

Your Daily Border Bulletin is up:

Guest Workers Are the Best Border Security While border security is perhaps the main focus of the immigration reform debate at present, Tamar Jacoby explains why the guest worker merits more attention. As population demographics and the US workforce change, the national economy is going to require more low-skilled workers. The proposed Senate immigration reform bill includes valuable provisions for a worker-visa program. “The best antidote to illegal immigration is a legal immigration system that works.”

Republicans Seek More Border Control in Immigration Bill As Senate Republicans demand stricter border-security requirements in the immigration reform legislation proceeding through the Senate, Democrats are pushing back. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the legislation “should not make the path to citizenship contingent upon border-security goals that are impossible” to meet.

Who’s Crossing the Mexico Border? A New Survey Tries to Find Out In a new survey from the National Center for Border Security and Immigration at the University of Arizona, researchers interviewed more than 1,000 detainees at the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector in 2012. The determination of immigrants to come to the US despite the trials of crossing the border lends support to the argument that the US needs to reform its immigration system, creating a clearer legal path for immigrants to come to work while more effectively securing the US-Mexico border.