American immigration policy should provide waivers for workers

Let immigrants work!  A Dallas Morning News echo opinion letter:

Maine Writer- I agree with this letter writer's point of view.  Nonetheless, an open door "work permit" will not deter immigrants but would have the opposite effect.  

Therefore, I believe America's immigration policy should provide for waivers to immigrants who can meet certain eligibility criteria as determined by social policy experts- but this reform must be implemented soon. Unfortunately the Congress is unlikely to enforce common sense solutions to the border crises. Meanwhile, immigrants suffer in a state of legal limbo and America's workforce desperately needs laborers. 

Dear Editor:  As a resident of a non-border state, I feel that border states should not be left to grapple with our immigration mess alone. 

Nevertheless, I cannot understand why the governors of the border states are not pressuring their representatives in Congress to develop intelligent laws regarding immigration.

A senator was recently heard to say he was trying to get President Joe Biden’s attention. At this point, I’m sure he has that, but what about his own august body? Not many years ago a bipartisan group of senators put together an immigration reform bill which easily passed but was for some reason killed by a Republican House. 

Can’t this bill be restored?

My husband is a businessman who is desperate for willing workers. Apparently asylum-seekers who have been approved must live here six months before working? Why? Why, when we desperately need workers, are the people who come here to work being shuttled around the country? It’s time for the people who were elected to come up with solutions to stop playing games and do so now.

From Marsha Niazmand in Chicago