Lamar Smith

Immigration

President Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy isn’t anti-immigrant

An underreported news item showing that approvals for U.S. citizenship applications have reached a five-year high proves America isn’t anti-immigrant. Nor was it anti-immigrant at the beginning of my time in Congress when I represented 300 miles of the Texas-Mexico border. In 1994, a Democrat-led commission made many of the same recommendations on immigration reform the Trump administration is now making — and I included...

June 20, 2019