Steven Camarota
Steven Camarota
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States have a choice: They can either buttress federal law or undermine it. It appears Virginia is trying to buttress it. And I think that reflects popular sentiment in Virginia.
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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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Natives with relatively little education are leaving the labor market in droves. This should not look like this at this point in an economic recovery.
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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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People are coming unless we stop them. It's not going to take care of itself,
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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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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 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 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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There's broad public dissatisfaction with any plan that does not start with enforcement.
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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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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.