Any "patchwork" solution would conflict with the 14th amendment, equal protection under the law of the IRA.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 1, 2006 04:36 PMThere were two guys on the Snooze Hour yesterday talking about immigration. The Cato Institute guy was predictably dimwitted, and the other, lefty guy, said it's too bad our laws have it that those least able to compete, the low-wagers, are the people who are competing with the immigrants. He pointed out that the higher wage earners, such as doctors, should be the ones to have to compete and at one time did, until they went screaming to Congress about the doctors coming in from India, etc, and depressing their wages. TaDa, presto chango, limited immigrant docs. Hmmmm, nothing new here.
Posted by Sharon at April 1, 2006 05:05 PMAnd like he pointed out, the lower prices for doctors would help everyone, except the doctors of course. And he included himself in the higher wage earner category (that I've limited to doctors in this snippet since I don't remember what he did for a living.)
Posted by Sharon at April 1, 2006 05:07 PMNo slack for the Irish? Toytoytoytoytoy....
Posted by Sonoma at April 1, 2006 05:39 PMActually there's a video of Jon Stewart at Crooks and Liars with some guy who was offended by the Mexican flags the reent protesters carried. And St. Patrick's Day came up and the guy said that shouldn't be celebrated either. It was Lou Dobbs.
The money quote though:
Stewart: Lou, do you understand that N.Y. is a parade based economy?
Ha, they can't take my birthday away too, can they?
Posted by Sharon at April 1, 2006 05:57 PMthat's recent, not reent
Posted by Sharon at April 1, 2006 06:08 PMI am tired of subsidizing businesses' income statements with porus border security and lax enforcement of existing employer immigration laws.
Mexico has a very tight southern border and a very loose northern border.
Mexican laborers make $4 a day, in the US they can make that in 30 minutes. If the US would felonize criminal behavior by employers, in addition to fines, the surge in opportunity seekers would come to a halt.
Posted by mlhm5 at April 1, 2006 10:12 PM
notes that while the U.S. led the world in broadband Internet access in 2000, it has now fallen to 16th place. In 2000, 40 percent of the world's telecom equipment was produced in America. That share is now 21 percent and falling. The U.S. ranks 42nd for the percentage of people with cellphones.
So you believe it's the governments responsibility to provide people with cellphones and internet hook-ups?
Posted by muckdog at April 1, 2006 11:48 PMThat's very lame of you, muck. You've done better in the past. Usually, there is some extremely tenuous connection between what you quote and what you claim. There is none in this latest.
Posted by pessimist at April 2, 2006 04:33 AM