Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast, Thursday, May 16th. I'm Anastasia Glova.

As Congress begins two weeks of intense debate, I'm Anastasia Glova.

As Congress begins two weeks of intense debate on immigration reform, passing an effective

reform bill remains a possibility.

In the Free Trade Bulletin titled Comprehensive Immigration Reform, finally getting it right,

Cato Scholar Dan Griswold provides a pragmatic solution to the United States'

failed immigration policy.

In his podcast, he explains that solution.

What does successful and comprehensive reform of U.S. immigration law look like?

I think any successful reform has to have some key components. I think the most important one is a workable temporary worker program.

Our economy needs more workers. We are creating jobs at the high end and the low end of the skill spectrum and yet the pool of Americans willing

and happy to take those jobs continues to shrink.

So we need a temporary worker program.

We need to legalize those who are here.

They're not going home. We can't round them up in some kind of biblical

exodus, and then we need to enforce that law.

We need to have an enforceable law and then enforce that because then we'd know if somebody's

sneaking across the border they're

intending to do us harm. You know some people point back to the 1986 immigration

reform and control act which was a major piece of legislation. It legalized 2.7 million people who were here illegally. It dramatically

ramped up our border enforcement, including making it illegal for the first time in

U.S. history to knowingly hire illegal workers.

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