Steven Camarota
Steven Camarota
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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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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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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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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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It leaves me scratching my head. It's just very hard to make the case that there's a huge shortage of labor.
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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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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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There's broad public dissatisfaction with any plan that does not start with enforcement.