President elected to build a wall and block amnesty will have given us amnesty and no wall. https://t.co/uCPTDFRMMv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Monthly Archives: January 2018
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No! You have 202 456 1111, which is the White House comment line, and 202 456 1414 which is the main switchboard. I wouldn't try the second number unless you really can't get through on the first. https://t.co/PKo0Ysn9vE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Politico's @seungminkim got the @jonathanweisman memo to substitute "famil-based immigration" for "chain migration," and the result is already confusion! "Chain" has narrower meaning (eg not nuclear family). Using it would have promoted clarity. https://t.co/IQsNFX40IB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Yes, it seems significant that Trump said 800,000. (Not 3 million.) https://t.co/LfnLUdbxym
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Whatever Trump meant, this is an opportune time to phone the White House to tell them what you think of "comprehensive" reform (ie amnesty for 11M). WH comment line is 202 456 1111. If that doesn't work, regular switchboard is 202 456 1414 https://t.co/INWUHExaxO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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That's the danger. The "parties who want a deal" will substitute "drones" for "wall"–and instead of ending chain migration for all we'll get a delay in ability of only the 800,000 DACAns to bring in siblings–i.e. a Graham/Flake/Schumer con job. https://t.co/J2XlucgLtE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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What Trump doesn't understand: Unless you watch Congress like a hawk and threaten veto it will send you bill giving mass amnesty, more immigration, with "enforcement" provisions that are 99% chimerical–i.e. a Lindsey Graham bill. https://t.co/Wm5HFMC7Nc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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*Somebody's* getting to him … https://t.co/raOSK1PTrV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Sounds like Trump's been doing too much golfing with Lindsey Graham. Just floating the idea of amnesty for 11M or more will encourage more illegal immigrants to try to cross border. https://t.co/6jghXLZKX8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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DEFINING WALL DOWN: "Democrats and Republicans struck notes of cautious optimism after the meeting, with both sides seeming to agree that 'the wall' and 'border security' are interchangeable terms …" https://t.co/LVUpHy1TSH Same sellout strategy Marc Short tried before.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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"[Russian] doping whistleblower fears for his life" https://t.co/89T1Db6dvH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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A key part of free trade/loose borders dogma–helping the "losers" adjust via worker retraining programs–doesn't work very well. Maybe we need to adust to the failure of adjustment … https://t.co/Vb8rUEmbRY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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NEW JOURNALISM OF THE TRUMP ERA: @NYTimes surveys usual opponents of wall–including bureaucracies wanting more $ for fancy toys–makes zero effort to get the pro-wall side's argument. "Don't call both sides"–do they teach that in J-school now? https://t.co/x0C2KCdZn6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Dems' budget "slow walk" kind of a brilliant strategy, if true, no? Allows press to pretend any shutdown is about lots of issues (caps, CHIP, etc.) when really it's all about DACA.
Also suggests Dems know they can't win shutdown over just DACA. https://t.co/VhRcU8SzD3— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Republicans: Budget deal prospects are dimming https://t.co/R7ZQPU44Sb via @politico
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Next Melber will tell us that Anderson East doesn't really have a "PhD in TLC." https://t.co/oMIQXrFIqS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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What else have they turned over to a "third party agency for NBC Entertainment"? https://t.co/psFrjE8E1I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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In clip, Cotton willing to credit rising wages for "people who work with their hands or work on their feet" to Trump "keeping low-skilled and unskilled immigration under control." https://t.co/V8Kujy4hlH It's not just rising stock market. https://t.co/GxnpgvyywC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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I meant to link to this https://t.co/CRVWUvtCib But works either way.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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It's a good thing for immigration-controllers if Dems can show their base they're heroically fighting for DACAns before losing, no? https://t.co/TjW6CvX7Du (Less good if they win.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 9, 2018
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Probably need to RT this once an hour between now and November … https://t.co/DToRIcbStc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Tucker: If Republicans Betray Voters on Immigration, They're Toast https://t.co/9E3iZCTF0D
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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Animating idea behind Gang of Amnesty (Durbin/Flake/Graham) proposal same as that behind old Gang of 8: How can we fool GOP voters into thinking they're getting something in exchange for a massive amnesty https://t.co/X1gWZZvoOu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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I didn't realize how awful the reported @LindseyGrahamSC DACA "compromise" proposal is: Only Potemkin "chain migration" reform, but a biggger-than-DACA amnesty https://t.co/X1gWZZvoOu Please, @realdonaldtrump, no more golf with this guy.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) January 8, 2018
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