Immigration reform in America is stuck. Blame Emma Lazarus, who wrote the 1883 sonnet anointing the Statue of Liberty a "Mother of Exiles", urging the old world to send "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". Lazarus is only accidentally to blame for the partisan deadlock that grips immigration reform, raising the ghastly prospect that a broken system will remain unfixed until after the 2014 midterm elections, and possibly the presidential contest of 2016.
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