What if you only tackled the effects of immigration?

The problems we associate with immigration are not inherent to immigration. Let's try tackling them instead of terrified children.

A Central American immigrant.
(Image credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

What is the point of U.S. immigration law?

That might seem like a stupidly simple question. But the Trump administration is now shattering families at the border and placing terrified children in kennels in the name of enforcing that law.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.