The Hill News

Everyone knows U.S. immigration law is broken, but most people don’t know why.  Powerful interests benefit from the system’s failures and lobby hard to prevent change.  Perhaps the biggest beneficiaries are businesses that don’t care where their workers come from as long as their wages are low and they have no bargaining power.  The fight over a regulatory change currently working its way through the courts and the U.S. Labor Department vividly illustrates why the broken system is so hard to fix.

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