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...
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What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.
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Sooner or later we all will have to face the fact that most of the 11 million are here to stay, and it is in our interest as much as theirs to find a way for them to do so legally. There is simply no practical alternative. The only real question before us is how to structure the transition.
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They're screaming out. They're fed up and they've discovered creative ways to go about venting their frustration.
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I have concerns about whether it will be workable.
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The chamber went all-out saying this really matters to us.
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Farming, construction, food processing, those businesses can't stay afloat without those workers.
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We're trying to replace a nudge-nudge, wink-wink system of unrealistic laws that don't get enforced with realistic laws that can be enforced.
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We need these workers to do jobs that americans aren't interested in doing anymore, and and right now, only two-thirds can come legally and the rest are coming illegally, and that illegality is really bothering the american people.
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When you combine this speech with the raids of last week and the talk in the Senate of adding enforcement money to the supplemental, they're saying you can enforce the border and have a guest worker program at the same time, in tandem.