Kathryn Anne Edwards

We need an immigration reform.

We have let roughly, I think, six to eight million people into the country and told them to apply for legal status on this side of the border.

And then we're mad it takes a long time when we don't have immigration reform or fund immigration courts.

I mean, they're both two sides of failure, which is that we need to have immigration reform that decides one way or the other.

We are they're going to let immigrants in and make them illegal.

fully incorporated into our economy and society, where we're going to keep them out.

And both of them are doing it halfway.

I appreciate both perspectives on some level, but it is absolutely ridiculous to say that there's any winning on any type of immigration policy if you are not reforming our broader system.

And that keeps getting lost in this political fight of like, oh, let too many people in.

Let not enough people in.

Y'all, our system is broken.

It hasn't been reformed since I was about six months old.

I'm 40.

About to be 41.

Like, we need to move here.

This system is broken.

So that'd be my policy response.

My economic response would be the...

Even the most ardent anti-immigrant economists would agree that immigrants increase the size of the economy.

They'd say that immigrants' effect that is deleterious to the economy comes from wages and that immigrants can suppress the wages of native-born workers.