Immigration Reform from the outside in Symposium Issue - Celebrating Ten Years of Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

This article will briefly examine some of the very dramatic and clearly extreme positions in American immigration history. It will also look at the extreme calls for reform at both ends of today's political spectrum. Subsequently, this article will examine why implementation of either of the current extremes would be disastrous. Afterwards, having framed these "outside" examples, this article will move inward to see if there is a middle ground that might serve as a starting point for the implementation of some thoughtfully-conceived series of measures to address our current immigration situation. This article will conclude with a series of suggestions for bringing about this change