What we need to do now is to create more openings for high-skill immigrants while reducing the number of slots for extended family reunification for low-skill immigrants, and Congress (though no the Obama administration) seems to be taking some steps in that direction. The Economist, while not addressing low-skill immigration, seems to be taking a similar view.

Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina will discuss the complicated relationship between the federal government and the states and her own experiences fighting government regulation.

The demographic trend I pointed to more than two years ago--a sharp decrease in immigration for Mexico--surely requires a rethinking of immigration policy, and by those who have been on all sides of the issue.

President Obama has been calling for immigration legislation similar to what former President George W. Bush sought, legislation geared to a status quo that no longer exists and seems unlikely to return. That's going nowhere.

Just as we should not isolate or cast China in the role of rogue or pariah state, we should not apologize for its actions, much less appease China and pretend that all will be fine.

While there is no such wide-ranging immigration reform bill currently making the rounds in Congress, the "Stopping Trained in America Ph.D.s from leaving the Economy" (S.T.A.P.L.E.) Act, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has bipartisan support and is a step in the right direction.

While Obama complained about "politicians" blocking comprehensive immigration bills, he was one of them himself. Some new approach is needed, and Obama did little to point the way. El Paso was all about election 2012, not serious immigration reform.

Arizona's immigration law and Congress's border security bill consider the inability to keep people from entering the country illegally the only problem and fail to broach other failings of the immigration system.