This time it's not California farmers or Florida tomato growers asking for migrant workers. It's Silicon Valley asking for foreign computer workers.
Temporary workers have a habit of becoming permanent U.S. residents.
This program is less about finally dealing with immigration issues on a broad scale than it is about coming through for big-dollar campaign contributors. The computer is raising productivity and thus profits and salaries. Fewer prisons, more rehab Rehabilitation and treatment may be making a comeback, if the comments of two key legislators are any indication. Those comments are encouraging. Texas now has the largest prison population in the nation.