Issue Position: Immigration

Issue Position

Since our nation's founding, immigrants have comprised an important component of the American social fabric. Immigrants provide the diversity, energy and wealth of knowledge that helped make America the dynamic and prosperous nation that we are today.

Unfortunately, our current immigration system is broken. Deficiencies in the legal immigration process coupled with imperfect border security have resulted in an unprecedented amount of illegal immigration. There are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living within our borders, functioning in a shadow economy that disregards their personal integrity and disadvantages American workers.

It is essential that we enact comprehensive immigration reform. I am dedicated to finding a solution that addresses the multifaceted problems threatening our immigration system. Any effort at reform must secure our border and include a responsible means of transitioning undocumented immigrants currently residing in America into legal residents, especially young people brought here as children. We must stop unjustly penalizing these children for the mistakes of politicians.

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