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Immigration: Law, Lives and Labor

The Wall Street Journal

February 21, 2026

How should immigration policy change to balance better the need to enforce the law with humanitarian and economic concerns? Journal writers weigh in.

- Matthew Continetti

Border Patrol agents detain a man in New York.

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This story is from the February 21, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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