Waiting Games: The Politics of US Immigration Reform

Susan F. Martin is an associate professor at Georgetown University and director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is also the former executive director of the US Commission on Immigration Reform. This article is adapted from a chapter she contributed to a book she coedited with Augustín Escobar Latapí, Mexico-US Migration Management: A Binational Approach (Lexington, 2008).