I'm not sure what about this guy is conservative anymore. He appointed a couple good judges and that was it — and he almost blew one of those chances. |
If four blocks away, on the way to work, you see 75 [day laborers] hanging around the 7-Eleven, it's like, 'What's going on here? This is something that's actually relevant to me.' That is making the issue a lot more salient to a lot more people. |
In fairness to USC they are a young team with a lot of new players and when we scored relatively early it can be unsettling for a young team. I am sure if the shoe had been on the other foot and they scored an early goal on us we might have been a little unsettled. |
It smacks of cronyism, |
It was a mistake, it was never actually even needed. |
It's pretty clear that the immigration service does not have the ability to run a vast guest worker program. |
Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration. |
My real problem is the dishonesty of it. It proves once again there is nothing temporary about Temporary Protected Status. |
Politically, what this is intended to do is show enough senators on the Republican side that the president is serious about enforcement to get them to vote for the amnesty. It's a spoonful of enforcement to help the amnesty go down. |
Technology is a tool, but it's only a tool. The personnel has to be adequate and the policy objectives appropriate. I would rather see better policy and less technology. |
That tells you the White House statement was slippery enough that both sides could plausibly claim support. |
The administration hasn't given any detail. They're not interested in passing it. They're just interested in talking about it. In the software business, they call this vaporware. They don't want to offend this side or the other side, so they punt. |
The benefit to those who are not immigrants is miniscule and is completely wiped out by the extra social costs that immigrants incur. |
The broad phenomenon is that states have to grapple with the issue of immigration because of failure on behalf of the federal government. The state and localities end up holding the bag. |
The chief obstacle to reform is the president. |