Nordlinger is a former Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Nordlingers article highlights an issue that has received scant attention in the debate over immigration reform. namely the need to improve and streamline the process for legal immigrants to obtain a green card and eventually qualify for citizenship. Congress has never provided the funds to satisfactorily implement legislation passed in 2000 to ease the immigration process for those who entered the country legally. As a result. those who played by the rules find themselves waiting for years in a bureaucratic maze for their applications to be processed. This creates the perception that those who play by the rules get penalized.
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