Historian Jacob Burckhardt once warned against being deceived by “terrible simplifiers.” If he hadn’t died in 1897, you might be tempted to think he was writing about defenders of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Whom should U.S. immigration policy ultimately serve? Are the nation’s immigration laws designed to cater to the interests of billions of potential migrants throughout the world who want to come to the United States? Or should they be designed to protect American citizens?