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The leader of the deceived
Dear Mr. Trump, I challenge you to a duel over arguments about immigration. I am throwing the gauntlet at you because none of your competitors in the presidential race ever will. Jeb Bush co-authored a book about our immigration crisis. He acknowledged that the system is dysfunctional, but he did not dare to draw the only logical conclusion from the facts that he presented: that our immigration crisis has been caused not by foreigners but by our nonsensical immigration policy. Marco Rubio was in the group of eight trying a rational approach, but they also lacked courage to confront the problem head-on and produced a convoluted proposal that Rube Goldberg would be proud of. A few years ago, Scott Walker talked reasonably about our immigration problems. He backed off just before joining the presidential campaign.
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Border security, or BS for short
Something is missing in the passionately debated border security, as a part of the immigration overhaul. Advocates for increased border protection bring up the issue of the nation’s security as the main reason for all the elaborate and expensive border protection provisions. People sneaking throughout the border are mostly low skilled and seeking entry level jobs in the U.S. It is a mystery to me how by picking strawberries at American farms or cutting meat in American slaughterhouses they can endanger the nation’s security.
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Why do we have 11 million illegal immigrants and what do we do with them?
My sixth open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration
Dear Mr. Romney,
Why do we have as many illegal immigrants as we have, not five times less or five times more? Our borders are so porous that almost anybody who wants to come, could come. Why have only 11 million immigrants (or whatever the real number is) arrived and stayed illegally? Why was it not 1 million or 21 million? We have as many illegal immigrants as we have because this is the number of workers that the economy needs. If we had no quotas limiting legal immigration, if we just registered and ran a background check on every foreigner who found employment in the U.S., we would have the same number of foreigners working here as we have now, but all of them would be here legally. We would be in control; we would know who they are and what they are doing.
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Why do we have illegal immigration?
My second open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration
Dear Mr. Romney,
Being so vocal against illegal immigration, did you do your homework to find out how we ended up having this mess to begin with? Can you disclose your reasoning process?
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Tagged amnesty, anti-immigration zealots, Bain Capital, family reunion, free market, illegal immigration, Immigration Act of 1924, Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, immigration quotas, legal immigration, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, seven letters, socialism, Soviet-style economy, The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, undocumented foreigners, visa lottery, workers visas
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Why do we need a line?
My first open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration
Dear Mr. Romney,
You stated many times that illegal immigrants should return to their countries of origin and get back in line. Why do we need a line to begin with? I grew up in Poland, then a socialistic country where the government ran almost everything, and we had lines for almost everything as well. Lines are a byproduct of the socialist ideal of a centralized, government-run economy. There are no lines in a free market system. The only meaningful lines that Americans have to endure on a daily basis are the lines in the U.S. Postal Service offices, the government-run quasi-monopoly.
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Alienation of the nation and Peggy Noonan in particular
In her column, “The Big Alienation” Peggy Noonan is trying to convince us that the nation is alienated from its government. As a pivotal argument, Ms. Noonan brings the uncontrolled mess on our nearly 2000 miles long border with Mexico; most Americans want this border secured, the government promises to do so, but does not do enough to make it happen.
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The immigration debate is not about immigration
The economy needs more workers than can come here legally, so they have been arriving illegally. The most logical solution would be to adjust the number of available workers’ visas as soon as the problem started showing up. This way we would have much greater control over who is coming and living among us.
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Polish kings and American presidents
Surprisingly, they have a lot in common.
Starting from the beginning of the 14th century, Polish kings were elected; originally by a narrow group of aristocrats. Gradually that system, which lasted almost 500 years, evolved into a general election in which every hereditary noble voted. Selection of candidates – and the elections themselves – were just as messy, and brought equally mixed results, as presidential elections in the U.S. There was one meaningful difference: Poles encouraged foreigners to run, and elected some.
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Benefits of the failure of the immigration bill
The debate over every single provision of the recently failed immigration bill could be compared to a bus full of people arguing at every intersection whether to turn left, right, or go straight – there is no consensus about where the bus is heading to begin with.
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Tagged citizenship, ethically diversified immigration, family sponsored immigration, free market, Freedom of Migration Act, green card, guest workers, illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, immigration system, labor market, Mexicans, Soviet-style, visa lottery
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