Steven Camarota
Steven Camarota
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Anyone who says we've tried enforcing the law and failed is wrong.
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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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That's extremely off-putting. Whatever their views, they keep it to themselves.
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Evidence suggests very few illegal aliens vote, but it's certainly not zero. Illegal aliens don't come to America to vote, and would generally try to avoid doing so.
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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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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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Coming to America is becoming a national aspiration rather than simply reflecting abject economic conditions.
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No one disputes that less-educated natives have done very poorly in the last five years.
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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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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'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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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.