When progressives tout their claims that most Americans want immigration reform, they rightfully could include me, even though I am absolutely against amnesty and abhor the steps they want to foist on the public.  A properly constituted immigration system that awarded preferences to people who bring needed education, skills, and capital to the United States would greatly strengthen our country, enhance our prosperity, and ensure that we retain our economic, technological, cultural, and moral leadership in the world. In this position, I differ from the views of my colleague Selwyn Duke, whose article today argues that immigration weakens the United States, and despairs of the problems inherent to the Nationality Act of 1965, as if no fundamental restructuring along the lines currently followed by Canada and Australia is conceivable.  Those two Anglosphere siblings of the United States give preferences to educated and prosperous immigrants who can add value to their...(Read Full Post)