Showing posts with label amnesty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amnesty. Show all posts

More Like A Banana Republic Dictator Than A Lame Duck

by Thomas Sowell.    Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary   ... MORE

The Financial Costs of Illegal Immigration

from National Center For Policy Analysis.     Over the course of a lifetime, 11.5 million illegal immigrants granted amnesty would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits after paying just $3.1 trillion in taxes. Many people believe that illegal immigrants receive little government welfare, but that is not the case, contends David Inserra,      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Immigration Gambles - Part II

Whose interests are immigration laws supposed to serve  -- and whose interests do current immigration reform proposals actually serve? In order to have any immigration policy serve any purpose, the border must first be secured. Otherwise American immigration policy exists only on paper, and is mocked by what happens on the      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Immigration Sophistry

Sympathy for the plight of lawbreakers.  Most laws are meant to stop people from doing something, and to penalize those who disregard those laws. More generally, laws are meant to protect the society from the law breakers. But our immigration laws are different. Here the whole focus is on the "plight" of those who have broken the laws, and on     ... MORE

Ramesh Ponnuru: Obama Vs. The Constitution

The rule of law is on the ballot.       There were warning signs about President Obama’s fealty to the Constitution even before he took the oath of office. As a senator he had voted against the nomination of John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, arguing that Roberts was deficient in the “empathy” required for the position. In a speech during his  ... MORE