What would be very useful (don’t know for whom) would be graph of what happened to less-skilled native born wages over the course of Trump and Biden administrations. Maybe compare with non-native wages. I assume data’s out there but immigration proponents don’t seem to include it https://t.co/oNovDwKsAA
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Feb 21, 2024
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Looong thread that never even addresses point that high less-skilled immigration lowers WAGES for less-skilled workers already here. Sure, everybody gets a job, but what’s the pay? This was historic tight-labor-market chance for unskilled to improve relative position. https://t.co/zVGpXuO7F7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 21, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 09:11PM
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First Biden “said the immediate jump in illegal immigration was perfectly normal: ‘It happens every single solitary year..'” Then the border was “secure.” Underlying it all was claim that migrants were surging due to root causes, not because they knew Biden was letting them in https://t.co/iogAmWZILW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 21, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 08:13PM
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“The administration’s lies on immigration have been so brazen, so gigantic, so frequently repeated — and the results so catastrophic — that this last-minute PR move before the election won’t work.” https://t.co/7zERRDA4X2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 21, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 08:07PM
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Skeptical. Way bigger interests at play: Business wants more workers, lots of people want bigger GDP, Biden wanted to cut wage inflation, long term Dem interests in turning US blue (beyond apportionment–new voters). Also pleasing activists who think immigration control is racist https://t.co/h1oLPlg3VX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 21, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 08:01PM
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Haley not going in the right direction in February https://t.co/xbxnNQIZGG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 21, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 07:40PM
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Team Krugman 2006! https://t.co/mRQ7ghwl1U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 05:00PM
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Why keep calling the Schumer/Lankford/Murphy mess the “Senate’s bipartisan border security deal”? It did not come close to passing the Senate. https://t.co/QuHlQbn0Zp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 03:36PM
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Man, there are a lot of good anti-Langella stories too. … https://t.co/9GwwHYzf0v
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 03:05AM
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If Johnson makes any border proposals, he should demand that nobody involved in negotiating the fraudulent loophole-ridden Schumer/Murphy/Sinema/Lankford bill be allowed anywhere near the new language-staff as well as Senators. Especially staff. https://t.co/RWhtE2dqcu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 20, 2024 at 12:11AM
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Rosemary Jenks: The GOP hires “college kids to handle [immigration] but the Democrats hire immigration attorneys. The Democrats’ staff runs circles around the Republican staff, every single time in every single immigration negotiation I’ve ever seen.” Including this one. … https://t.co/hCGIcIwJoj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 11:51PM
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Alas, the moderates’ border bill is a nothingburger. Chapter & verse here. Sample: “The bill’s [got] tough language on expelling migrants, but ‘it exempts asylum seekers — it’s just ridiculous'” It gets worse. At best it is “symbolic.” https://t.co/hCGIcIwJoj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 11:47PM
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Assume not a fake. https://t.co/8gR8S998pg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 11:17PM
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Only 4 new movies about the plight of migrants this spring. https://t.co/BBITqzsnac
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 11:00PM
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For Haley bingewatchers ….It works for Netflix. https://t.co/YURqKYx2AQ
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Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 10:44PM
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And they have plans for sixteen (16) more! Should be easy to convince Biden his legacy is secure (so he can quit) with stats like that.
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Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 10:03PM
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.@NPR national news (the summary on the hour) just covered the opening of an EV charging station in Kentucky. Good grief.
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Feb 20, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 09:58PM
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Jill Biden explores her legacy https://t.co/ZJldSDlQsC Historians: There is a scenario that ensures your legacy and your husband’s, one you are uniquely positioned to bring about …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 04:17PM
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I didn’t know that Navalny was for the refundable child tax credit! https://t.co/bdDy1gi6L6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 04:13PM
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EJ: “So when offered the chance to give hard-working lower-income parents a bit of a boost, why not seize the opportunity?”
Except that Dems (& you) support a tax credit that explicitly is NOT restricted to workers. It’s a straight dole. No work required. https://t.co/bdDy1gi6L6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 04:11PM
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Would also affirm that he believes he has the power to act without Schumer’s loophole-vitiated border “shut down” bill …
Would also confirm that WH thinks that just relying on “GOPs Blocked the Wonderful Schumer Bill” won’t cut much ice in November.
I bet he doesn’t do it. https://t.co/0Gd3Ii3V2U
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 03:27PM
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Annoying that @NewRepublic has left out at least the second paragraph (and maybe more) of this famous book review. https://t.co/8ADXXczhn3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 19, 2024 at 03:12AM
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Biden will throw the enviros (and much of his precious BBB half-victory) under the bus. But he won’t throw Mayorkas and bogus asylum-seekers under the bus. Why? https://t.co/R63boHO73G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 18, 2024 at 10:06PM
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“Slow early stage of shift …relax some elements.” This doesn’t sound like a minor adjustment or concession to unions. If they’re putting off the mandatory ramp up until after 2030 it’s a huge retreat, no? https://t.co/WPhyIAAJYc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 19, 2024
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February 18, 2024 at 08:38PM
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Alternative possibility: Voters aren’t going to remember who voted for a particular one of many complicated border bills. But they *will* remember the Democrats new we’re-so-tough rhetoric on the border, and they’ll expect them to live up to it. https://t.co/a75RfULMJK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 17, 2024
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