Solving the immigration problem is crucial to the country and to the GOP, Mr. Rubio said.
Their idea is simple: Solve the immigration problem by allowing more legal migration.
These principles are crucial for solving today's illegal immigration problem and ensuring that it never happens again.
She said the solution for the illegal immigration problem should be border security first, and then immigration reform.
The way to solve it is to solve our immigration problem more broadly.
The health care problem is made vastly more difficult by the immigration problem.
The solution to the U.S.-Mexico immigration problem is political and economic reform in Mexico, which would provide jobs to its citizens.
Finding a sensible way to resolve our illegal-immigration problem must include penalties that show the rest of the world that it really is cheaper, easier and faster to immigrate to the U.S. the right way.
While Canada does not have the same illegal immigration problem, the Tories did face the same dilemma reaching out to immigrants while holding on to white voters who see Canada's immigration system as far too porous.
But that accepted, you can argue that if immigration is a problem, Calais is responsible for nearly 70% of it.
"Immigration is not a problem on one condition - that it is controlled, " he said.
Illegal immigration is a serious problem, but our national focus on it drowns out discussions of other problems that are just as pressing, if not as public, like strategic immigration.
Their argument, that the problem of illegal immigration cannot be solved with enforcement alone, is sound.
But the third argument put forward by those who say we can't control immigration is that immigration is not just a problem of supply but of demand.
"This is the public's way of contributing to solving the problem" of illegal immigration, Mr. Graham said.
One critical problem is that the normal immigration channels are dysfunctional.
Legislators from both parties have at various times advanced proposals that would smooth the way for skilled migrants, but they have usually foundered on the more intractable problem of dealing with illegal immigration.
This problem has little to do with immigration.
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The economic benefit of immigration is in part about how big of a problem our aging population is.
In this high-tech age -- when computer programmers are in short supply (don't forget the Year 2000 problem) and when Congress may liberalize immigration laws to lure foreign programmers to our shores -- this ban on programmers' becoming individual entrepreneurs is absurd.
Samuel Rodriguez, head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, describes the state of the Latino family as a more urgent problem than reform of America's dysfunctional immigration system.
"But the real problem is that in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, you're asking the state, you're asking officials of the state, like the people of the department of motor vehicles, to, in effect, ratify someone who is not here legally as someone who is going to be given a privilege, a document from the state, and, you know, it just didn't bear up under a lot of scrutiny, " she explained.
And the problem that's created by a patchwork of immigration regulations I think is obvious.
Recognizing these problem, some Republicans are now moving ahead on immigration reform.
As much as he wanted to be by her bedside during the operation, her father couldn't get a visa to travel to Spain in time, another problem for Colombians who are routinely eyed with suspicion by immigration officers across the world.
And Dan Stein of the Federation for American Immigration Reform says it doesn't get to the root of the problem, that employers use illegal immigrants to undercut US workers.
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He still faces the problem of producing a winning policy on U.S. immigration, which is as important to the Mexican government as a successful attack on the drug cartels.
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The immigration-reform bill in the Senate is a solid starting point for solving this problem, and I believe it can be made even better as Congress begins to actively work on it in committee next week.
The immigration debate is often premised on the assumption that high wages for American workers are a problem to be overcome.
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