For the past 40 years, undocumented immigration has been fueled by a lack of legal avenues for immigrant workers to fill critical jobs in the economy and a failure by Congress to reform the system to create more of those avenues.
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Self-Deportation: Is it a Trap, Repatriation, or Deportation?
The recent offer of self-deportation assistance by the Department of Homeland Security is a first for our nation, but it replicates the practice of many anti-immigrant countries.