Immigration policy needs polygraph

“But once the debate is renewed, congressional reformers will be blitzed by advocates of the failed status quo with a series of false assumptions concerning the issue.

Take, for example, the shared self-interest argument ”” that the benefits to both the U.S. and Mexico of leaving our borders open trumps the need for enforcement of existing laws and outweighs the costs to U.S. taxpayers that result from massive influxes of poor illegal aliens.”

Not that I refute or endorse what he is saying but this line struck me as way off

“Travel to the Midwest, for example, and you’ll see that students are employed as cooks and maids. Construction relies on legal laborers.”

I live in the Midwest and I can tell you this is way off. When was the last time this Stanford Historian was in the midwest. Chicago is in the midwest isn’t it? Even here in a small town in the middle of the midwest there are plenty of Latino laborers, but I don’t inquire into their status. Does he?

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