Steven Camarota
Steven Camarota
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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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People are coming unless we stop them. It's not going to take care of itself,
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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.
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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.
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The 35.2 million immigrants living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded. It is also two-and-a-half times tally of the 13.5 million immigrants during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910.
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The ability of a state or local government to do a great deal about immigration is limited. No question about it.
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Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.
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No one disputes that less-educated natives have done very poorly in the last five years.
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People don't want an increase in immigration, and legalizing someone who is illegal just sticks in their craw.
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People come here to work, ... sliced the data really thin.
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They're looking at 46 million people who would like to come--if the numbers are to believed. Even if a small fraction decide to come, you're looking at enormous numbers.
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Anyone who says we've tried enforcing the law and failed is wrong.
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The bottom line is the number of people who came from 2000 to 2004 was more than we've seen in American history, 6.2 million people in a four-year period,
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Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.