Justice
The Case for City-Based Visas
Scholars are floating a new method of immigration sponsorship.
Add this wrinkle to America's ongoing immigration debate: city-based visas.
Proposed by the NYU Urbanization Project led by economist Paul Romer, the idea is that cities could use a system of place-based visas to sponsor immigrants. Brandon Fuller, a research scholar at the Urbanization Project and director of Romer's Charter Cities organization, explains it this way on the project's blog: