Making Room
It benefits Argentina, too. Officials contend that in addition to reducing black-market labor and discrimination, the registration program will help make Argentina’s porous borders more secure, and bring in much-needed tax funds. “I think this is a good idea that deserves to be studied,” says José Miguel Insulza, secretary-general of the Organization of American States in Washington. Argentina’s openness derives in part from the South American nation’s historical background: millions of immigrants from Spain and Italy arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the same country that gave refuge to Nazi war criminals after World War II is also host to the largest Jewish population in the Western Hemisphere outside of the United States....