I’ve read at least 2 articles in the past few days on failures in our immigration system. Our immigration system does not work well. We seem unable to let people in in a timely manner and we ocassionally deport people people who should not be deported. Why can’t we get it right?

Trudy Rubin, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote about our failure to let in Iraqi’s who helped the US and now face death because our system has failed them :
Shame on U.S.: Iraqi allies betrayed

President Obama is failing these folks. Would any of the candidates do better? They are quick to jump on other perceived failures but I’ve heard no mention of this or a suggestion that any of them would do better.

Then I read an interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor today: Deported teen returns to US. How many Americans are mistakenly banished?

This case certainly has aspects would make me assign partial blame to both the authorities and the teen (and family) but the larger question concerns safeguards against deporting U.S. citizens.