PS Those “outlier” levels cover most of the 20th century https://t.co/a8C3pKum6w

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:50PM
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1) Your chart ends in 2023. The RCP piece estimates over 16% now; 2) There’s a reason why we remember the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s as golden years! Wages were high, for one thing. https://t.co/tud7MF6yoM https://t.co/GpHHLfmgyT

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:43PM
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.@SecRollins is for a fully “LEGAL agricultural workforce, which she will achieve by legalizing all the illegal migrants who work on farms. https://t.co/1gGzSPKUGF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:23PM
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Biden seems to have destroyed the basis for a “comprehensive immigration reform” compromise-which was always a trade of amnesty now for future enforcement measures. After Biden who’ll trust that a future Dem president won’t ignore or eviscerate any enforcement measures or limits?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:21PM
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“Most of those who were added to the foreign-born population during the Biden years were added illegally.
… about 10 million illegal aliens were added to the U.S. population during the Biden administration.” https://t.co/cesgaAJmYb

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:16PM
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“[A]bout one out of every six people now living in the U.S. is foreign-born, versus one out of every 21 on the eve of the Bicentennial. That’s a massive population transformation – one unlike anything our country has ever previously experienced.” https://t.co/mFkDFpuSaA

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 30, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 08:08PM
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Everybody’s focused on the free buses and government grocery stores and tax hikes, but it’s the lax welfare policies and open migration policies that will destroy NYC … https://t.co/DRU5XWhikc

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 07:50PM
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Kagan hardest hit https://t.co/hA3Y1rR2wN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 07:41PM
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.@SecRollins is for a fully “LEGAL agricultural workforce: which she will achieve by legalizing the illegal migrants who work on farms. https://t.co/1gGzSPKUGF

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 07:37PM
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Expect a lot of this BS to distract from the @SecRollins illegal migrant “free pass” sellout… https://t.co/4yGwu3sbuE

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 05:32PM
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Unless you work in hotels or on farms https://t.co/PioDA8QvEm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 02:47PM
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A nation mourns https://t.co/W39TQjzURX

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 29, 2025

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June 29, 2025 at 02:25PM
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Not used to seeing sensible articles in @TheAtlantic. https://t.co/USOv4OsvW9

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 28, 2025 at 04:32PM
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But the whole problem is ameliorated if @SCOTUS basically decides big issues quickly via the emergency docket. This seems to be the new equilibrium, per Kavanaugh, J. https://t.co/ssY9Lm8zPL Seems OK to me. We have the best Supreme Court in my lifetime. https://t.co/hi4haEilsi

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 28, 2025 at 04:24PM
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But the whole problem is ameliorated if @SCOTUS basically decides big issues quickly via the shadow docket, no? https://t.co/hi4haEilsi

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 28, 2025 at 04:15PM
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If Mamdani lets his victimization by hateful, Islamophobic and racist tropes become the central issue in the campaign … well, that’s one way he could lose, no? https://t.co/LyrRtCvKdN

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 28, 2025 at 03:06AM
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Here is Trump vs. Bush II and Obama: https://t.co/W3ZH4ehYzs

Here’s Trump 4 points underwater: https://t.co/yiOe1Ut32S

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 28, 2025 at 02:53AM
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WHY ARE TRUMP’S POLLS ONLY OK? Yes, Trump’s doing about as well in the approval polls as Obama and Bush II at this point in their 2nd terms. But he’s performing in the upper range of what anyone had a right to expect–certainly better than I expected. The economy seems fine,

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 28, 2025 at 02:50AM
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Seems deceptive. They have to to “close out contracts the agency had already negotiated.” In other words (I think) these aren’t new expenses that would not be incurred if USAID didn’t shut down. Article should have discussed this. https://t.co/QAbT8xwIBm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 27, 2025 at 08:15PM
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e.g.: “In the 1950s, children born in the U.S. to migrants in the Bracero work program were not considered U.S. citizens.”

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 28, 2025

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June 27, 2025 at 08:00PM
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Useful article. You had to overlook a bunch of legislative history and practical examples to get to that footnote in Plyer v. Doe declaring birthright citizenship. https://t.co/12QJoWh4aw

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 27, 2025

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June 27, 2025 at 07:59PM
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Note to @Noahpinion: Things are looking up in Toronto (after a wave of immigration) too! … https://t.co/dAkngVM9dH

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 27, 2025

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June 27, 2025 at 07:08PM
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How about this: Let in legal immigrants (up to the usual limit of a million or so a year) only to the extent that there is a reduction (by deportation or self-deportation) of illegal immigrants. https://t.co/1siy0ua7Wi

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 27, 2025

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June 27, 2025 at 01:11PM
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That would seem to be a pretty high criminality rate–22%. https://t.co/EFHfaRVRjo

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 27, 2025

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June 27, 2025 at 01:05PM
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Wording in the 1866 Act (“not subject to any foreign power”) seems v-useful in interpreting who gets citizenship at birth under the 14th Amendment (which says they must be “subject to the jurisdiction” of US). Do illegals or tourists have that allegiance? https://t.co/xbvEFVFcUg

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jun 26, 2025

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June 26, 2025 at 05:19PM
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