Open border ping to Today show list.
Just wait until the first dirty bomb goes off in America, or a first big disease plague is traced to illegals.
Have you ever seen dysfunctional, malfeasant politicians tap dance???
Hey, I’m all for a policy of “Open Borders, No Benefits”, but the Democrats won’t have it. Can’t have hordes of hard-working Poles and Czechs and Taiwanese swarming over here and living conservative lifestyles - no, any new immigrants have to be Net Benefit Consumers who know which party butters their bread. ;)
They started this junk a couple of years ago. That’s when I cancelled my subscription.
Open borders are a laudable goal. We can talk about it when Mexico decides to join the first world.
When the WSJ board members tear down the fences to their private estates, get rid of personal body guards and let us have full access to their homes and property whenever we want and wherever we want, then even I'll support open borders.
The WSJ editorial page is famous for its fiscal conservatism, but less so for its social conservatism. I don’t believe they are especially pro-life, for instance.
Amnesty is a money issue. They stand with big business and the Chamber of Commerce in wanting cheap labor, and the hell what it does to the country.
It must be said that this is very short-sighted, because if the country goes down the tubes, so will big business. What good is it to have cheap labor if the country is overrun with gangs and the government starts behaving like a Latin American dictatorship?
Which it will, if the balance tips far enough.
The WSJ is a mouthpiece for the country club GOP business owner who has made his millions on the backs of illegal immigrants and the taxpayers that pay their benefits (healthcare, education, insurance, etc, etc.). F- them!
OK. Let them in - right into the military as a “pathway to citizenship.”
That’s fine—they can all live at Mr. Riley’s house and he can foot all the food/medical/living expense bills for them, what say you???
D’oh. We HAVE open borders. For LEGAL immigrants. Good grief.
I’m happy I subscribe to IBD.
Just another one of Grover Norquist's puppets-on-a-string.
I saw a little bit of this interview, and it left me screaming at the TV. Mr. Riley was insisting that the Hispanics coming across the Mexican border are learning to speak English. Bullbleep! I don’t know where Mr. Riley lives, but I’m guessing it’s not in a border state. I challenge him to come live in Texas for a few years and see what he says about it then.
This guy was on with Lou Dobbs the other night. As could be imagined, things did not go well.
It's bad enough that we have to carry the deadwood base of the democrat party without adding 20 million more freeloaders to the welfare roles.
Kick 'em out!!
I am not sure what Jason Riley is thinking or if he is even capable of thinking. He might as well be arguing for blue skies as open borders. The truth is the sky is blue, the borders are open and are about to become exponentially more so.
When a country has 25 million illegal invaders I do not think “closed” is diction one could very well use and be accurate and/or honest. If the borders were “open” would we have 50 million, 75 million invaders?
The American Sheeple, utilizing their American Idol pop sensibilities and puerile intellect have selected for themselves the Senior backstabber and Junior Marxist. Amnesty cometh, our Republic goeth, so what is your argument, Mr. Riley? The pimps on Wall St. and leftist enemies of America have for all intents and purposes, won. Again Mr. Riley, what is your argument?
Jason Riley claims the way to solve the problem is to provide more ways to legally immigrate. Ok, what is wrong with what we have now? Ummm nothing but it is too slow is the common response. Well heck, they are right, hopping the fence (if there is one) or wading across the river is much faster. And what they want when they get here is to be legalized. And that would be amnesty. But it is quicker.
Jason claims the Texas controller did a study that indicated illegal aliens are a net plus to the economy. Ok, that would be Carolyn Strayhorn in 2006 and in that study removing all the illegals results in the overall decline in the economy ranges from 0.1% to 2% The average would be roughly 1% However that very study tries to bemoan the fact that it found there would be a rise in wages.
“Wage rates would rise by 0.6 percent in the first year and stay above the forecast rate throughout the entire 20-year period.”
But there is more. Carolyn Strayhorn the comptroller also did an audit of the Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC, pronounced “trick”) this week. This Commission has been heavily criticized for its overbearing bias towards the homebuilding industry. Instead of providing protection for new homebuyers, the commission has provided ample protection for the builders. And just guess what makes that industry go? Illegal aliens of course.
So Carolyn, who is part of the Governor Perry team, audits the Commission, which is comprised of Governor Perry appointees. Anyone care to guess the results of the audit?
Jason goes on to claims they are assimilating because the are learning English. Well, I live in Dallas and I don’t see the illegals learning English and for the most part they are dragging the others, legal and illegal back to Spanish because it is their “culture.”
Jason also indicates a sign of assimilation is signaled by the illegals buying houses. Apparently Jason is unaware of one of the larger contributing factors to the real estate collapse is banks handing out mortgages to folks that could not handle them i.e. illegal aliens.
Lastly Mr. Riley claims that the illegals are assimilating because they are “climbing out of poverty.” But it, according to the study, depresses our wages.
Somehow I just can not buy off on Jason’s premise. Just call me mean-spirited I suppose.
A little set up: As I recall, Michelle had criticized the WSJ’s open borders stance and they fired back citing guerrilla attacks, so Michelle lampooned them with a gorilla attack in this video.
The video is of an actual WSJ editorial panel meeting where Gigot calls us irrational and another says it's a cultural thing, code word for us being racists. But then Michelle delightfully points out that all the WSJ editorial page members are middle aged white males and while there is a woman and a black man in the room, there's no place at the table for them.
It's WSJ hypocrisy at it's best:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/07/new-vent-gorilla-warfare-against-the-open-borders-wsj/