Answer to the question about the full-year stats from @voxdotcom's v-knowledgeable reporter. Still preponderance of non-asylum cases. Still need the wall. https://t.co/GdvMe115uJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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UPDATE: @DLind suggests asylum seekers actually did exceed ordinary border-crossers last month (assuming all the apprehended families were asylum seekers). But not for the year presumably, since this is only the second month it's happened. https://t.co/nfOks7MNFG https://t.co/QPV7As4kIj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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That's ridiculous. You need a wall for the non-asylum seekers, who still (if I read the stats right) outnumber the asylum-seekers (at least until everyone learns how to exploit the asylum loophole). https://t.co/2Sq9Q9CsSw https://t.co/ONAPXv7r2m
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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The time/$ costs of "due process" are our weak spot. Will we ever have enough judges/ detention beds to process all asylum claims? Seems like better answer has to be that claimants DON'T GET INTO U.S. AT ALL while case is heard. If MX a safe country for them, can wait there, no? https://t.co/5IpOUjAesv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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Tester up in poll, 46-43. Is the Incumbent Rule sitll in operation? If so, he's in trouble. https://t.co/T4n81RSr51
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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“The notion we shouldn’t be talking about the central issue this president has talked about for three years is crazy.” https://t.co/dsAz9qxWIY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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I would say the ratio is 50 times out of 100 saves you, 50 times out of 100 screws it up. But copyediting takes time and energy, so it's net not worth it. https://t.co/QShxQIbO04
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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Why not @JessicaV_CIS to replace the apparently feckless Nielsen as head of DHS? Tough, knowledgeable and sensible. https://t.co/RqeeIOCJho
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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So Bolton was right in the shouting match? https://t.co/G4d11FuOJb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 23, 2018
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Jared is Harvard's version of native content. https://t.co/0BRKPNuevw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Trump can't wait for Congress (which isn't even in session). “The executive branch needs to do something in the short-term,” https://t.co/RqeeIOCJho
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Immigration Expert Jessica Vaughan: 4 Ways Trump Can Solve Migrant Caravan Crisis https://t.co/qpNab7uxAN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Jared Kushner's father bought his place at Harvard for $2.5 million? https://t.co/SLaixy7yNh I'd heard that Harvard sold its honor. I didn't realize how cheap.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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What happened when @ESpiers tried to raise money to start a news org. Revealing thread on idiocy of VCs https://t.co/vRjY2YdRAp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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But the main way immigration control helps achieve the goal of social equality is directly: by helping RAISE WAGES for unskilled workers to a level that enables a mainstream life (not by making it easier to pass worthwhile Dem programs, though it does that too).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Illegal immigration? Beto O’Rourke’s answer "essentially was to end illegal immigration by making it legal." https://t.co/knnuOSwf70
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Met Leiner often through mutual friends. A v-nice man. Harold & Kumar's a good movie.. Didn't realize he'd directed all these other things (eg episodes of Sopranos, Gilmore Girls, The Office). Respect. https://t.co/D283mDMYwK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Saudi Arabia Has No Leverage https://t.co/99ZwBjl1kF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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No, there's a lot left: Universal health care, Social Security pensions, enivronmental/worker safety protections, work-based income support, non-discrimination, infrastructure, building public institutions that treat people as equals. All MORE possible if we control the border https://t.co/2RdnldZNb7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 22, 2018
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Where is the Coalition of the Ascendant? If it has trouble winning the House under a president as controversial (8 pts. underwater) as Trump, how ascendant is it? https://t.co/2jxZFQqBB9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2018
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At least we don't have a mayor who made solving the homeless problem his #1 issue.
Now he wants to run for president–and people are actually taking him seriously. https://t.co/UNv1lTKfLR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2018
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AXIOS: You gotta keep it all hid https://t.co/1HEJCxaQd5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2018
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"So the price of a new New Deal majority would be to let Democrats welcome abortion critics and opponents of mass immigration…and a pause on globalization…" https://t.co/BIhkVJoPsn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2018
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"With less than one in four West Virginia voters saying they are more likely to support Sen. Manchin because of his vote to confirm [Kavanaugh] it appears his eleventh hour decision did not have the impact…" https://t.co/qEkKsGQNRw Huh? If sways 1 in 4 that's HUGE in close race
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2018
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TORQUING THE NEWS:: The linked piece says Trump was asked if he found it "credible," not if he *believed* it. Think there is a difference between those two.
Who writes these @nytopinion tweets?. https://t.co/hP6NEF82aD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 21, 2018
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