Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacobyis known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. She is also president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization self-described as "a national federation of small business owners working to advance better immigration law." Jacoby was a 2012 Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation...
both caste creates others people
Some people are going to say it's amnesty, and others are going to say it creates a second-class caste of workers. It's a non-starter for both sides.
effective judgment political specifics strategy
Their political judgment is that weighing in on the specifics is not the most effective strategy for them.
david essence people reform roots side
In spirit, the whole idea of the reform is for people like David Mendez, who are in essence hard-working Americans with roots in this country, so they can get on the right side of the law.
earn hard onto people side
For the most part these are hard working, family-oriented people who want to become Americans we should find a way for them to earn their way onto the right side of the law.
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How do you solve the problem of illegal immigration without addressing the 11 million already here?
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The chamber went all-out saying this really matters to us.
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This is a huge, huge thing he did. He is the person who had the guts to say we had to have a compromise. He gets the credit for the compromise.
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This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .
thinking people choices
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.