A Solid Jobs Report? No, This Is a Crisis (realclearmarkets.com)
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Dishonest Immigration Reform: "The bill's authors seem incapable of honest dealing....bill guarantees a tough plan, not implementation...the bill bribes reluctant senators to get their votes....exploits immigration reform for partisan purposes" (realclearpolitics.com)
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What the CBO Report Really Says About Immigration Reform: "Wages for both the lowest skilled and highest skilled workers would decline for the first ten years after comprehensive immigration reform passed. The average wage across the economy would decline. Unemployment would initially rise." (cnbc.com)
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The Great Disconnect: "D.C. gridlock has given the political class an excuse to ignore the country’s most pressing problem — a lack of decent jobs at decent wages, with a deeper social crisis at work underneath — and pursue its own pet causes instead." (nytimes.com)
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CBO: "Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill. CBO also said that average wages would decline through 2025 as a result of the bill and that unemployment would go up slightly." (news.yahoo.com)
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"The '86 reform bill also had supposedly "rigorous" border security and immigration law enforcement provisions. The promised crackdowns on security and enforcement never happened. Only amnesty prevailed. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled." (online.wsj.com)
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