Counselor Glenn Reynolds offers some outstanding advice to our so-called legislators:
| (1) Make the process open, transparent, and timely, with hearings, drafts on the Internet, and no last-minute bills that no one has read; (2) Earn people's trust, don't demand it, and treat enforcement like it matters; (3) Respect people who follow the law, and make legal immigration easier, cheaper, and simpler, rather than the Kafkaesque nightmare it is now; (4) Don't feel you have to be "comprehensive" -- address the problems you can deal with first. The trust needed to deal with other problems will come later, after you've shown some success and some good faith. |
Crafting the legislative equivalent of Tolstoy's War and Peace in hidden back-rooms doesn't build trust, especially when only about 12 miles of the promised 700-mile fence have been built.
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