It’s hard to imagine a more needed contribution to America’s immigration debate than Reihan ... Salam explains that under the current system, most visas are doled out according to family ...

Reihan Salam is the fifth president of the Manhattan Institute, a research and advocacy organization that advances opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.

Reihan Salam has written an interestingly revealing essay for Slate about how he came to be conscious of his class identity – and, implicitly, how that shaped his emerging political consciousness.