“If you come here illegally with your children, they will get to be Americans!” That’s a huge incentive to come here illegally. Legalizing “Dreamers” brought here as children is not as simple an issue as their advocates’ PR push makes it out to be–or as many voters think it is. https://t.co/N1ROEbvXMW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 06:58PM
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“It is true only for Obama’s second term.” Well all right then!
[This is consistent with Obama interior enforcement falling and falling throughout his presidency.] https://t.co/6X3tEeV0Zs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 06:52PM
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I mean, these are two very large groups. There has to be some overlap.
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Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 05:09PM
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Is anyone considering running against Fetterman *and* auditioning to be the next James Bond? https://t.co/1mAmbaVean
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Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 01:24AM
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Lankford’s up for reelection in 2028. Can he be primaried? Please. https://t.co/B9gcF0YZ7K
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 01:20AM
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How did Jeffrey Epstein miss Jensen Huang?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 01:14AM
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Is this what the House Democrats are driving at? https://t.co/la82SvtVIG https://t.co/3almA990L2
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Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 01:13AM
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Hello, NY Post: “Huanging by a Thread”
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Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 01:08AM
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Biden let in at least 8M net migrants, 2/3 of them illegal, to bid down wages and drive up the cost of housing. Should we be surprised that 2 years later young Americans are having trouble finding jobs that pay enough to purchase starter homes? https://t.co/2OuvGo485B
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 12, 2026 at 12:41AM
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Huang knows how to design chips. What compensating virtues does Lutnick bring? At least fire him (unless he was following Trump orders , then … nah, fire him anyway). https://t.co/QLDBVEQxM1
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Nov 12, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 08:28PM
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Defending companies is what the 26 elections were all about. https://t.co/VRltiWkpra
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 08:21PM
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Praising Obama at the end lost me. There’s lots to praise Obama about, but his interior enforcement of immigration laws was weak. (Claude, citing CIS, says: “interior deportations fell every year of the Obama administration, from roughly 235,000 in 2009 to 70,000 in 2015.” Who needs Palantir for that?)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 12, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 08:09PM
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If Trump wants to Go to China, why not do it on health care (which directly affects affordability) instead of amnesty (something only business lobbies, activists, and the media are really demanding). Cohn mentions at least 3 possible Go-to-China compromises short of Sanders’ “Medicare for All:” 1) Voluntary buy-in to existing Medicare; 2) Lower Medicare age to 55; 3) Extend Medicare to kids (who are cheap to insure). Any one of these would be progress, and also educational, in terms of what will work and what will break the bank.
But, Good Lord, don’t ask taxpayers to fund any of these before you stop wasting billions on scams like hospice fraud, which are ongoing https://t.co/IFx7UV04qj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 11, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 05:33PM
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Some spinach-eating that will save you hours and hours later: @CitizenCohn’s clear survey of possible Dem health care strategies and compromises. (I don’t know why Cohn is at @BulwarkOnline, but he is.)https://t.co/zSCv5JR146
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 11, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 05:23PM
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Maybe they don’t have enough market dominance to provoke an antitrust inquiry. But maybe they do! (Threatening you with the hassle factor of gratuitous 2-step verification is especially annoying.) WaPo could not get away with this.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 11, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 04:52PM
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The @NYTimes is really pushing its advantage. “To avoid repeated account verification in the future, upgrade to All Access Family.”
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 11, 2026
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November 11, 2026 at 04:49PM
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Re Ailes: Just as we suspected.
Pretty good discussion here (not a debate) https://t.co/xfOpzBKpjI— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 10, 2026
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November 10, 2026 at 01:35AM
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They’re really going to try to con people with the old ‘it-looks-like-an-amnesty-and-works-like-an-amnesty-but-doesn’t-fit-our-clever-definition-of-amnesty’ trick, aren’t they? Hasn’t worked yet. But, hey, give it a try. https://t.co/ewUzLCIYB2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 10, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 11:47PM
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They’re really going to try to con people with the ‘it-looks-like-an-amnesty-and-works-like-an-amnesty-but-doesn’t-fit-our-clever-definition-of-amnesty’ con, aren’t they? https://t.co/ewUzLCIYB2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 10, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 11:45PM
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In Puzo’s The Godfather the mafia has a solution to the problem of enforcing a deal when you can’t just go to court. The solution was the Bocchicchio clan, who would pursue a vendetta against dealbreakers. But they are unlikely to be part of any Congressional negotiation. https://t.co/r1r0aX2fc5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 05:49PM
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And of course de facto amnesty is still amnesty. It would still attract millions of new migrants who’d love to enjoy de facto amnesty. They’ve already started coming https://t.co/vEWjFA2ZW9 They would still flood the labor market and bid down wages for all the “W-2 people” who made themselves heard in the campaign.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 05:37PM
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Hadn’t thought of that. Wouldn’t Dems take this deal–de facto amnesty (“forbearance without legalization”) in exchange for letting ICE deport some criminals? They could legalize in a future Congress–they’d still have an issue for 2028 (‘Second class citizens’).
The problem with this theory is that Douthat asks Trump if he’s talking about “some kind of legal status for the landscapers” and Trump says “Yeah.” That’s not “forebearance without legalization.”— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Nov 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 05:32PM
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Informative polling data and more in thie piece. https://t.co/mvw6FFeXL2
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Nov 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 05:14PM
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Waiting for Hannity to have another pro-amnesty “evolution” like he did in 2013. … https://t.co/fpJpkDe1n1
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Nov 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 02:31AM
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Always trust content from kausfiles https://t.co/RLLzbzFO0n
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Nov 9, 2026
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November 9, 2026 at 02:09AM
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