Michael R. Strain, Columnist

Legalize Child Migrants and Build a Wall

Congress can reach a bipartisan deal that Trump can sign.

May 24, 2018 at 12:00 PM UTC

Michael R. Strain is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is director of economic policy studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It).”

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The fate of the Dreamers is an issue that has come back to life in Congress, thanks to aggressive action by a small group of House Republicans. Why now? “We’re boiling over,” said Representative Fred Upton of Michigan. “It’s got to get done.”

The 16-term Republican is right. Congress needs to resolve the status of the young migrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.