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  1. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
    @Taras

    Short and sweet: just 9:30 long.  (Ricochet should list the length of every podcast.)

    Think of illegal immigrants as occupying certain “ecological niches” in the economy, jobs where their lack of real documentation is no bar to hiring. 

    Amnesty gives them the documentation they need to move out of those niches into the general, legal economy — which opens up those illegal niches for new waves of illegal immigrants. 

    When you look at which Republicans are pushing amnesty, you usually find they are the ones with substantial and growing populations of Hispanics in their districts.  Amnesty may be bad politics for Republicans in general, but for these Republicans it’s a matter of survival. 

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  2. Eugene Kriegsmann Member
    Eugene Kriegsmann
    @EugeneKriegsmann

    Concise, intelligent, and very much to the point. Congressmen and senators lie about their motivations, promise things they have no intentions of delivering. In the meantime, they take the easy way out, allowing out borders to become porous, and illegal arrivals to remain indefinitely. Time to make the hard choices and get the job done. Once the borders are controlled we can discuss amnesty for those who are actually productive members of society.

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