Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacobyis known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. She is also president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization self-described as "a national federation of small business owners working to advance better immigration law." Jacoby was a 2012 Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation...
gun race political
This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .
thinking people choices
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.
chamber matters saying
The chamber went all-out saying this really matters to us.
credit gets guts huge
This is a huge, huge thing he did. He is the person who had the guts to say we had to have a compromise. He gets the credit for the compromise.
exciting food hell
It's an exciting time. But it's going to be one hell of a food fight.
fix question
It's not a question of 'can we fix this?' It's 'when and how?'
against difference hard instead obviously president reform
Is comprehensive reform a slam-dunk in Congress? Obviously not. This is a hard battle, but it makes a lot of difference to have the president with us instead of against us.
call close inadequate system
To call the system inadequate doesn't even come close to it,
both caste creates others people
Some people are going to say it's amnesty, and others are going to say it creates a second-class caste of workers. It's a non-starter for both sides.