We Locked Four Experts in a Room Until They Solved Immigration

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/09/2018 - 9:33pm |

Your move, Congress.

By Julia Preston for Politico Magazine, Feb. 9

[....] on Monday, we invited four people from across the political spectrum, people who have fought with and against each other in the trenches of the D.C. immigration debate for years, to sit at a table and talk. We asked them if they could come up with a compromise, any compromise, that might give the young immigrants a way to avoid deportation, a goal Trump too has endorsed. We gave our model Congress water, cookies, paper, pens and two hours to see what they could do. They never left the room. (But we probably would have allowed them to if they had asked.)

Over 120 minutes, we learned a lot about the contours of the current immigration debate—what both sides really care about [....]

URL:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/09/how-to-solve-immigration-experts-daca-216954