Ira Mehlman
Ira Mehlman
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You have to create conditions that encourage people to deport themselves. We didn't get to 12 million people overnight. We're not going to get back down overnight.
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The idea that if you break the law and put yourself and your family in that situation, that it's unfair for the government to take action against you, doesn't make any sense. It's unfortunate when these thing happen, but you have to look at who created the situation in the first place.
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The reason we set limits in the first place is because it has an impact on everyone else. Changing it will change the illegality, but it doesn't change the impact. Immigration affects labor markets and social institutions.
We think this could be a major, precedent-setting case.
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There is no reason to flood the labor market with more unskilled workers when we have a more than ample supply in this country.
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Why admit people with TPS if you know they're never going to leave.
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If the Senate does go ahead and pass something that looks like amnesty, they will never get this passed in the House.
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But churches have been actively involved in aiding people who are breaking the law. Churches should not expect to be exempt when they're disobeying the law.
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Obviously, these are well-orchestrated, well-organized rallies that are taking place, and they represent the views of the people who are out there, primarily people who have broken the law and want to be rewarded for it.
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That's the reason we have large-scale illegal immigration: because we send a clear message that there are no negative consequences to breaking our immigration laws. And if you persevere long enough, you are going to get what you want.
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Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in favor of immigration reform without bearing any animosity toward immigrants.
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I think it's going to be difficult for the president. Whatever political capital he thought he had last year is spent and, like the rest of the federal government, is in deficit. Amnesty, on a visceral level, most Americans object to.
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It is a de facto amnesty. It rewards people who broke the law. It puts at a disadvantage kids who didn't break the law.
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Given the president's approval rating these days, and with one-third of the Senate up for re-election this year, they are not going to follow the president off the cliff on this one.