Steven Camarota
Steven Camarota
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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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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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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.
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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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The whole idea that 'America has a 5 percent unemployment rate and therefore clearly we need lots of immigrant labor' is very foolish.
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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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If he were to say that, it would be helpful to know what he means. But he does not say that.
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The idea that there are jobs that Americans won't do is economic gibberish. All the big occupations that immigrants are in - construction, janitorial, even agriculture - are overwhelmingly done by native Americans.