Tamar Jacoby and Immigration

Tamar Jacoby was a journalist. She was the deputy opinion editor for the New York Times.
But this all changed with one story.
Ten years ago, Jacoby was writing an article over the immigration battles in Arizona. It was an area of study she was interested and called her sources for their quotes.
She said it was after she conducted the interviews that she realized these polar opposite representatives really had more in common than she realized. That’s when she decided to bring them together to find some common ground.
Finding that common ground is what she has been doing since.
Jacoby is the President of Immigration Works, a group that reaches out to small businesses and presses for immigration solutions.
She brings an interesting perspective because most assume those who are leaning Republican are anti-immigration while those who are more liberal are open to illegal immigration.
She defies that stereotype.
Jacoby said businesses want to be on the right side of the law, and while most activists are on the left, these people usually are more right-leaning politically. The message from these groups are not to build a wall and send them home but to work towards policies that do three things:
1) Allow businesses easier access to immigrant workers by instituting some sort of worker plan.
2) Protect the borders once a more workable process is in place.
3) Provide some sort of route to citizenship for the millions of people who are already here.
She said that throughout the many focus groups she has performed, it does not take long for people to realize that the extremes are not reasonable solutions. People move to extreme measures because she said they are scared or they feel laws should not be broken.
But the world is not what it used to be 50 years ago, and the laws have not adapted to the new times. In 1960, half of American men in the workforce were high school dropouts, now that number is six percent.
Who do we find to do those menial or more trade-oriented jobs that Americans seem to have educated themselves out of?
Jacoby spends her time trying to find an answer to this question that resonates with those in Congress, but so far none has stuck. People in America still have to get passed their own judgments and assumptions, and Congress is no different.