Bernie Sanders Denounces Higher Immigration

The Daily Caller ^ | July 28, 2015 | Blake Neff

[free_life]

So give us a plan to deport 2 million criminal aliens. Will he get support from the Dems or the GOPe?

This is a problem yes, as for plans who has a detailed one? Who else is even talking deportation? Not B+ LOL Amnesty Walker!

New laws and defunding can curtail SCOTUS rulings...or SCOTUS rulings can just be ignored at times like Obama does.

Illegal aliens have committed multiple crimes besides entering illegally. They commit ID theft, steal SSNs, lie on employment forms, work illegally, evade taxes, etc. As someone who has actually issued visas, most of them couldn't get a tourist visa let along an immigrant visa. Do we want people who intentionally violated our laws to stay and work here?

I agree and didn't say otherwise. (your comment gets the 3 ??? response).

Those waiting to get in legally are kept at front of the line. Did you actually read what I wrote? I ask because it sure doesn't sound like it.

Santorum has zero chance of ever being president. So his big policy statements on what he will do are worthless...dejavu last GOP primary.

[vmivol00]

Yep...it’s an argument the GOP should be making...if they hadn’t sold their soul’s to the cheap labor express.

Maybe if we didn’t try to give those jobs to kids instead of illegals, it would keep some of the busy and keep them out of trouble.

Thus is probably the only place I can say I agree with Sanders. I am somewhat shocked he is that realistic.

[kabar]

Just click on each candidate and you will see the documentation behind each rating replete with links to the source material.

Christie gets a C- as does Huckabee.

[kabar]

Who else is even talking deportation?

Attrition thru enforcement is the correct answer. The advocates of amnesty like to provide the false choice of either mass deportation or a blanket amnesty. You don't have to choose either one.

Not B+ LOL Amnesty Walker!

You need to look at the ratings a bit closer. Walker gets an overall B-.

New laws and defunding can curtail SCOTUS rulings...or SCOTUS rulings can just be ignored at times like Obama does.

Wrong. What SCTUS ruling is Obama ignoring? Passing new laws contrary to what SCOTUS deems as unconstitutional will be ruled unconstitutional as well.

Those waiting to get in legally are kept at front of the line. Did you actually read what I wrote? I ask because it sure doesn't sound like it.

That is not what Trump said. He wants to expedite the entry of the "good" ones.

Santorum has zero chance of ever being president. So his big policy statements on what he will do are worthless...dejavu last GOP primary.

Agree. He has no traction. He is just the best on the issue of immigration.

[Corky Ramirez]

I refuse to belive this is his stand.

[riverdawg]

“Anecdotal information does not something true. HOw about some fact”

Facts, by themselves, don't indicate whether a proposition is true or false. Facts have to be organized and analyzed. Almost all of the research studies I am familiar with have reached the conclusion that increased immigration has a small overall effect on the wages and employment of native-born workers, but a non-trivial effect on labor-market outcomes of unskilled (young and minority) natives. A recent summary and list of a few of these studies can be found here:

http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/jeea2012.pdf

[kabar]

You need to look at the studies of Harvard professor George Borjas who is generally recognized to be the nation's leading immigration economist.

George J. Borjas has been described by both Business Week and the Wall Street Journal as “America’s leading immigration economist”. He is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the recipient of the 2011 IZA Prize in Labor Economics. Professor Borjas is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA. Professor Borjas is the author of several books, including Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, 1999), and the widely used textbook Labor Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2012), now in its sixth edition. He has published over125 articles in books and scholarly journals. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975.

Borjas Charted: Who Benefits Economically from Immigration?

Borjas responds to Card et. al. This is a lengthy, highly technical article, but the bottom line is that immigration has a significant impact on wages and jobs of the native born. Immigration and the American Worker A Review of the Academic Literature By George Borjas April 2013

Although the net benefits to natives from illegal immigrants are small, there is a sizable redistribution effect. Illegal immigration reduces the wage of native workers by an estimated $99 to $118 billion a year, and generates a gain for businesses and other users of immigrants of $107 to $128 billion.

The above estimates are generated by the presence of additional workers in the labor market, not by the legal status of those workers.

Some studies also argue that native high school dropouts and high school graduates are interchangeable in the workplace (Card, 2009; Ottaviano and Peri, 2012). If true, the impact of immigration on the relative size of the low-skill workforce is small and the wage impact of immigration is correspondingly small. The data, however, do not provide convincing evidence that high school dropouts and high school graduates are, in fact, interchangeable (Borjas, Grogger, and Hanson, 2012).

[C. Edmund Wright]

Maybe Donald will cheer Bernie Sanders next.....before realizing years later he's dangerous....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH