Conservatives who oppose "amnesty" have no answer to this question. Never have. It's a fundamental flaw.https://twitter.com/politicalwire/status/534533727368790017 …
@ChasFlemming simple enough. So why won't conservative politicians who agree with this plan cop to it when asked?
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One of the problems now is mixed motives on the GOP side in favor anything that will get the hispanic voter to stop being mad.
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This mixed motive is why I believe you can't get straight answers from GOP politicians. The well has been poisoned.
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Why aren't we out in force refuting that?
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@ChasFlemming Why cant we incentivize legal immigration? Give everybody here illegally a chance at legalization?@mattklewis -
Another principle of problem-solving is do nothing else until you restore factory settings. @TomTomJAnderson
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I'm worried that Matt's getting bored. Hope he hasn't muted me yet. @TomTomJAnderson
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Maybe you and I need to educate them. Same principle with all federal-level problem-solving.
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3) Then, decide what to do with the relatively small number of remaining cases.
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@ChasFlemming@mattklewis "relatively small" - I'd suggest that your suggestions (which I agree w/ 100%) would only affect small pct -
@ChasFlemming@mattklewis Ok, net attrition during "Great Recession" was flat. Your ideas are good but my guess is 8-10M left to address -
I don't think so. I also linked to this > http://www.cis.org/ReducingIllegalImmigration-Attrition-Enforcement …
@awsiegel@mattklewis We can cut you off this if you want.
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2) Do things that make the problem smaller (like employment enforcement, deporting criminals).
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1: Stop whatever's causing the problem (promises of large-scale amnesty being only of them).
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