Anyone who says we've tried enforcing the law and failed is wrong. |
Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions. |
Evidence suggests very few illegal aliens vote, but it's certainly not zero. Illegal aliens don't come to America to vote, and would generally try to avoid doing so. |
If he were to say that, it would be helpful to know what he means. But he does not say that. |
It leaves me scratching my head. It's just very hard to make the case that there's a huge shortage of labor. |
It's hard to see how you can reconcile what the Senate is likely to do and what the House has done. My guess is we won't see a major change this year. |
It's the strongest, most comprehensive enforcement bill we have seen in a generation or more. It goes about 70 percent of the way to getting us to actually enforcing the law, if it were ever implemented. |
Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line. |
Natives with relatively little education are leaving the labor market in droves. This should not look like this at this point in an economic recovery. |
No one disputes that less-educated natives have done very poorly in the last five years. |
People are coming unless we stop them. It's not going to take care of itself, |
People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin. |
People don't want an increase in immigration, and legalizing someone who is illegal just sticks in their craw. |
States have a choice: They can either buttress federal law or undermine it. It appears Virginia is trying to buttress it. And I think that reflects popular sentiment in Virginia. |
That's extremely off-putting. Whatever their views, they keep it to themselves. |