After taking hit on Election Day, GOP mulls immigration compromise
November 24, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
House Republicans still smarting from their poor showing among Hispanics in the presidential election are planning a vote this week on immigration legislation that would expand visas for foreign science and technology students and make it easier for people with green cards to bring their immediate families to the U.S.
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This is very smart. Pander to the Latinos to fake them out about how you feel their pain and respect their community. Look how well it worked for the tea party and the moral majority, solid building blocks for the supreme Grey Old Party to assemble. Good luck with that. The rest of us look forward to your continued bumbling.
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If so-called conservative free-market proponents truly supported the free-market, they would oppose any government restriction on immigration as it restricts the labor market. I’m reading an interesting book now, and one of the author’s main points is that immigration policy plays a far greater role in determining wages in America than even the minimum wage law. If immigrants could come in as they please, we would see an almost immediate drop in wages and an inevitable repeal of the current minimum wage.
But alas, there are really very few real advocates for true free-markets, because they can never exist. And those who claim to support free markets are really only opposed to the restrictions that harm them, but are by-in-large united in favor of restrictions that are seen as patriotic or “a given”.
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Wow Merv. Do you really believe that. Thinking about all the problems the world and this country has, I can narrow it down to thinking like you do. Ideas are dangerous things and I hope you are never in a situation where you could influence a young mind. I’m sorry, your comment makes me sad because I know there are a lot of “Mervs” out there.
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Once we start selling our soul for votes, we might as well just join the Democratic party.
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