Immigration History from Mr. Peabody

Imagine a new immigration policy We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. Fanciful New Age History because ...? “ Unplugged Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or brand them as aliens fit for deportation. That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it. We don't need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges. [We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.] "Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad." Huh? This recounting of American history immediately reminded me of Mr. Peabody, the dog who took boy Sherman into the Way Back Machine for cockeyed versions of history on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show [sample]. Only, there's no humor.  I'll guess that Robert Soro learned from a Howard Zinn textbook, and was beat up during recess as a yoot.  "We don't need more categories" is dead on.  Legal and illegal do the job.   ”