Remembering Emma Lazarus

Breaking the Immigration Stalemate, a Report from the Brookings-Duke Immigration Policy Roundtable, offers practical suggestions for immigration reform. Stalemate, however, falls short both in identifying the underlying problems that warrant reform and in articulating broad national goals that immigration policy should achieve. One such goal, one that is part of our national heritage, would be to advocate for increased immigration as part of our arsenal for addressing global poverty.