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For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Gordon , 617-651-0841
April 8, 2021

**'Immigration Reform Done Right Can Reinforce Our National
Security'**

**Washington, D.C.**-

****In an op-ed

this week for Morning Consult, retired Adm. James M. Loy makes the case
that the humanitarian crisis at the border should not stop Congress from
passing immigration reforms.

"Policymakers should be mindful of conflating a humanitarian challenge
at the border with a national security crisis. For too long, meaningful
immigration reforms have failed, in part because of the false premise
that immigration threatens U.S. national security," writes Loy, a
founding member of the Council on National Security and Immigration
. "In reality, immigration reform done right can
reinforce our national security and economic interests and allow us to
regain our footing as a global humanitarian leader."

Loy served as administrator of the Transportation Security
Administration and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in the George
W. Bush administration and, earlier, as commandant of the U.S. Coast
Guard during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The op-ed comes the same week as U.S. Customs and Border Protection
released its March data on border apprehensions
.

​​​"We are too often presented with a false choice between
security and compassion," Loy concludes. "Congress can - and should
- pass immigration policies that address the humanitarian crisis at
the border in the short term and increase security in the longer term by
emphasizing legal, orderly immigration pathways."

The full op-ed is available via Morning Consult
.

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