REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS typically examine America’s southern border to Swiss cheese. It’s extra like a black gap. Its gravitational pull is so robust that officers can suppose solely of enforcement and safety (or the great electoral politics that include harping on about enforcement and safety). The names of small, dusty border cities—Eagle Go, Jacumba Sizzling Springs—have by no means been so well-known. The black gap leaves little time to think about the opposite elements of America’s creaking immigration system, comparable to refugees, skilled-worker visas or reforming quotas which are many years old-fashioned.
