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But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States government has - don't come, it's dangerous. You will be immediately deported. That's literally what…

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But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics,…

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Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors,…

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Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that they go…

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The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just…

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By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress…

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In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax…

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There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

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Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people…

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But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United…

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Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that…

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Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information…

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But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove…

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