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Title: Back to Square One on Immigration
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CATO
URL Source: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007 ... -to-square-one-on-immigration/
Published: Jun 12, 2007
Author: CATO
Post Date: 2007-06-12 12:40:41 by can of corn
Keywords: None
Views: 387
Comments: 16
Opponents of comprehensive immigration reform are undoubtedly congratulating themselves on the apparent demise yesterday of S. 1348. The bill failed to win enough votes in the Senate for cloture and a final vote. Leading the charge to defeat the bill were a group of Republicans opposed to just about any legalization or expansion of visas for low-skilled workers. We’ve made the case at the Center for Trade Policy Studies for an immigration system that recognizes the need of our growing economy for more foreign-born workers and the benefits we would enjoy from more legal immigration. The only alternative offered by opponents of reform is to spend more on the same enforcement efforts that have failed in the past to stop illegal immigration. Conservatives who are normally skeptical of big government place all their hope in dramatic increases in spending for border enforcement, longer fences to nowhere, more raids on U.S. workplaces, and more red tape and national ID cards for American workers. The bill before the Senate was flawed in many ways. The number of temporary worker visas was insufficient, its interior enforcement provisions too intrusive, the point system too convoluted. But the bill was at least pointing in the right direction. The Republicans who brought the bill down have yet to put forward any practical and principled alternative.
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#1. To: can of corn (#0)
The Republicans who brought the bill down have yet to put forward any practical and principled alternative. CATO is obviously a NWO type and when it comes down, we will have enough rope for him also.
Remember the Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org Larry, Curly, Moe and a potential great leader in every sense of the word In Ron Paul We Trust Ping
Remember the Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org Larry, Curly, Moe and a potential great leader in every sense of the word In Ron Paul We Trust It's not a "him" It's the CATO Institute.
More muddle-headed globalism.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
NWO types lack a sense of humor ;)
Remember the Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org Larry, Curly, Moe and a potential great leader in every sense of the word In Ron Paul We Trust http://www.ronpaul2008.com/ CATO used to be good for a few things but it has been overwhelmed by neocons. Hence it is virtually useless as a think tank. Now it only regurgitates PNAC and CFR propaganda.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
So the guys who want completely unregulated capitalism object to choking off the flow of cheap labor that displaces American workers. Yawn.
Bunch of internet bums ... grand jury --- opium den ! ~ byeltsin
do you use that squirrel picture when you post on other forums?
"Aren't you lucky. You get to hear me whine about the 10 posts I'm allowed each day." -- BeAChooser
hey, morgana, nice to see you again.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Perhaps it was a sort of a dry mediocre joke. But I have a hard time giving folks whose posts consist of silly pictures the benefit of the doubt.
you should put the squirrel picture on your home page.
"Aren't you lucky. You get to hear me whine about the 10 posts I'm allowed each day." -- BeAChooser
thank you. i see you have replaced BAC with a new kook.
"Aren't you lucky. You get to hear me whine about the 10 posts I'm allowed each day." -- BeAChooser
i just want you to know that you have some big shoes to fill. buckeroo, ponchy and BAC were the site kooks before you arrived. you have to be as wacky as they were or we will find someone to replace you. remember, there is no shortage of kooks on the internet, you can be replaced very easily.
"Aren't you lucky. You get to hear me whine about the 10 posts I'm allowed each day." -- BeAChooser
Is this you? Bunch of internet bums ... grand jury --- opium den ! ~ byeltsin
i haven't seen that picture before, but it does look like him.
"Aren't you lucky. You get to hear me whine about the 10 posts I'm allowed each day." -- BeAChooser
But the bill was at least pointing in the right direction.
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
#3. To: intotheabyss (#1)
CATO is obviously a NWO type and when it comes down, we will have enough rope for him also.
#4. To: can of corn (#0)
#5. To: can of corn (#3)
#6. To: can of corn (#3)
It's the CATO Institute.
#7. To: can of corn (#0)
#8. To: can of corn (#0)
#9. To: Morgana le Fay (#8)
#10. To: can of corn, morgana la fay (#0)
The number of temporary worker visas was insufficient,,,,but the bill was a t least pointing in the right direction.
#11. To: intotheabyss (#5)
NWO types lack a sense of humor ;)
#12. To: can of corn (#11)
#13. To: christine (#9)
hey, morgana, nice to see you again.
#14. To: can of corn (#11)
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#16. To: Minerva, can of coors (#15)
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