Newspaper Opinion Piece

Since the publication of the article “Infinite Ingress” from the Los Angeles Times, many of the facts in that issue have changed. This story was originally published January 25, 2004. Three years later, immigration is still a hot topic in American society. On May 25, 2006, the United States Senate approved an immigration bill that would strengthen boarder control, establish a guest-worker program, and providing means for immigrants to stay in the country to possibly become citizens according to The Washington Post article “Senate Approves Immigration Bill.” Even though this bill later stalled in Congress, immigration is still an issue today. According to a Los Angeles Times article posted September 10, 2007 “Caught in a Bureaucratic Black Hole,” immigrants trying to becaome legal citizens, are finding the process to take an excruciating amount of time. According to the article, “nearly 320,000 people were waiting for their name checks to be completed as of Aug. 7, including more than 152,000 who had been waiting for more than six months, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. More than 61,000 had been waiting for more than two years.” While the article “Infinite Ingress” depicted a bleak outlook for California’s congestion and immigration issues, it seems that little has changed since then. An immigration bill was trying to relieve the burdened but failed to complete the job. California’s immigration problem is still just that, a problem and relief seems out of reach. It seems as though legislators from both California and throughout the United States, are aware of the immigration issue, however there is little action that has been done to alleviate the crisis.

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