Los Angeles Times Editorial It's time for Congress to agree on a humane immigration solution [Same-o, same-o from another MSM open-borders propaganda sheet: (1) Dishonesty starts in the first paragraph. Although, yes, mass deportation would be best, that solution is proposed by almost zero border-enforcement politicians, so why always present this false choice? (2) The final escape hatch used by the Left on this topic is always that the migrant tsunami cannot be "thwarted," so then why pass any reforms at all? --tma]

Editorial It's time for Congress to agree on a humane immigration solution



 This nation's never-ending debate over immigration, those who demand strict enforcement of existing laws are armed with a simple rejoinder: What, they ask, do you not understand about “illegal”? To them, the solution to illegal immigration is to identify those who are here illegally and deport them.

It's a reasonable point. A law should be enforced. But the argument can't be isolated from the realities of immigration, which is propelled by regional economic imbalances, familial connections and the basic human desire to live a better, safer and richer life. Those are powerful forces, unlikely to be thwarted by stepped-up deportation. Instead, under those pressures, our immigration system has crumbled, and strict enforcement has become impractical, even impossible. Congress can and should, but probably won't, fix it. That leaves pragmatism — which President Obama exhibited with his recent directives offering deportation reprieves for some 5 million immigrants here illegally. ...

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-immigration-explained-20150102-story.html