Steven Camarota
Steven Camarota
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The public agrees on certain things, and one of these is the distinction between legal and illegal immigration, ... in the end it's mostly within Washington's purview.
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With the number of labor-intensive acres going up in California, their behavior does not seem to suggest that they see a labor shortage, even if that's what they tell reporters. Farmers always think there's not enough labor. It's a very unpredictable business. You can't control the weather. The one thing you can push for is a lax immigration program, or a guest-worker program.
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If he were to say that, it would be helpful to know what he means. But he does not say that.
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The obvious thing is to enforce the law, at the border and at the work site, and to deny access to bank accounts and driver licenses.
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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.
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That's extremely off-putting. Whatever their views, they keep it to themselves.
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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.
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There's broad public dissatisfaction with any plan that does not start with enforcement.
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The idea that there are jobs that Americans won't do is economic gibberish. All the big occupations that immigrants are in - construction, janitorial, even agriculture - are overwhelmingly done by native Americans.
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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.
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It leaves me scratching my head. It's just very hard to make the case that there's a huge shortage of labor.