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...
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We're trying to replace a nudge-nudge, wink-wink system of unrealistic laws that don't get enforced with realistic laws that can be enforced.
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To call the system inadequate doesn't even come close to it,
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When people live as marginalized temporary workers they act like marginalized temporary workers. When they get residency, they invest in themselves, get educated and learn English.
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When people live as marginalized temporary workers, they act like marginalized temporary workers. When they get residency, they invest in themselves, get educated and learn English.
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The president made clear that the most effective thing he could do in the short term is to make the case to the country.
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The president is hanging back and letting the Senate do the work. But if they can bring back a comprehensive bill that he can say with a straight face is not amnesty, that's something he can get behind.
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I have concerns about whether it will be workable.
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Bush is saying something that can be hard to explain. He's saying the way to control immigration and rationalize the system isn't to crack down harder but to open up the channels for more immigrants.
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When you combine this speech with the raids of last week and the talk in the Senate of adding enforcement money to the supplemental, they're saying you can enforce the border and have a guest worker program at the same time, in tandem.
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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.
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Is comprehensive reform a slam-dunk in Congress? Obviously not. This is a hard battle, but it makes a lot of difference to have the president with us instead of against us.
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What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.
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You have the classic standoff between the main street constituency and the business side of the party. In that case, the members tend to go where the voters are.
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We need these workers to do jobs that americans aren't interested in doing anymore, and and right now, only two-thirds can come legally and the rest are coming illegally, and that illegality is really bothering the american people.