“We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of …” — Luis Gutierrez

I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.

Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.