[marron]

effective immigration reform is an economic-growth driver

I caught that line.

He will open the border and say its good for the economy.

They are bringing in a million legal immigrants a year on top of another million illegals, into a shrinking job market. I guess it never occurs to them that their job is to serve the citizens, that immigration policy should serve the interest of citizens. The border should be secured against illegals, and legal immigration should be reduced to effectively zero until the economy rebounds. Even then, how does it serve the citizen to have a million new immigrants each and every year?

[nhwingut]

Yep.

“Comprehensive” is too radioactive now. Everyone associates it with amnesty and open borders.

So some Luntz type (probably Luntz himself) came up with the genius word “effective.”

[Ben Ficklin]

Without immigration, the US would have a negative population growth rate. With present levels of immigration, population growth is about 0.9% per year.

Population growth grows economic output.