Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Both sides of the immigration debate have called for a reform of our legal immigration process, which can be Byzantine and choked with red tape, and which often seems unfair. Here’s an illustrative example.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes took a look at the plight of immigrant widows, whose marriages to U.S. citizens were not vetted by immigration authorities before their husbands died. According to 60 Minutes, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services is ordering hundreds of widows and widowers to leave the country because their spouses died before their official immigration interviews.