Commentary: Here's how to handle Central American migrants — like the Cuban rafters and Soviet Jews before them
by Roberto Suro and T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2019
3 minutes
The United States has a long history of responding to migration emergencies with legislative remedies crafted for specific situations. Sometimes, the intent has been to open doors, at other times to close them. The current influx of Central American asylum seekers at our southern border also needs a highly targeted fix.
Unfortunately, what's on the table in the negotiations now underway in Washington has little chance of solving the problem, or worse, aims to solve the wrong problem.
Every proposal for a "wall," whether big and
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