Vox: Trump Administration Not Doing Enough to Help Giant, Global Tech Companies Underpay Workers … https://t.co/ej6ihdmVYc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 11, 2019
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Vox: Trump Administration Not Doing Enough to Help Giant, Global Tech Companies Underpay Workers … https://t.co/ej6ihdmVYc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 11, 2019
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Rawls' "maximin" principle (maximize situation of the worst off) suggests we have too much immigration already, no? At least too much low-skilled immigration. https://t.co/XPX5F0NgZ9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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Gets more encouraging toward the end …. https://t.co/foRWfeV5KZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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SAVE/GET KEY TWEET: Word missing from this article on $$ inequality. Begins with "i." …. https://t.co/KSJWuNh6ph
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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Thinking maybe we could use some "new" miles of wall there–what do you say, DHS? https://t.co/EnmP6dgdV7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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The AMLO speech, as described here, doesn't seem to undercut the idea that @RealDonaldTrump won real concessions from Mexico. Maybe other accounts have more detail … https://t.co/Nnqt4IkTGl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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Don't overthink this https://t.co/r2kbUukh2K https://t.co/5s346xd1dL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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"A serial amnesty machine." That's certainly what would have happened if Rubio & Graham's Gang of 8 bill had passed … https://t.co/fjIk6TL4h5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 10, 2019
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One of those facade-piercing leaks that makes Trump look better, not worse. Skepticism (eg about whether Mexico will really follow through) is appropriate … https://t.co/m4hcyT7lsv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 9, 2019
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WACKY NYT: That was a bizarre bit of See-We're-Standing-Up-To-Trump rhetoric policing. When press/pols/normal people use the word "invasion," how often is it literally an invasion, with troops and tanks? 10%? 20? https://t.co/IP1gjBOF7u
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 9, 2019
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NY Times types & @JamesFallows
& Shannon O'Neil of CFR seem eager to deny there's any possibility Trump made progress with his tariff threat. Truth is we don't know yet. Trump doesn't know. Even if Mexico just said "This time we mean it"–that could be progress (if they do). https://t.co/vcC4jB0BrB— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 9, 2019
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"US & Allies Told Russians They'd Open Western Front Months Ago." All they did on D-Day was put more resources behind it and move more aggressively (ie actually do it). https://t.co/hpT84zlMET
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 9, 2019
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Don't understand. Everyone knows Remain in Mexico was launched earlier. But it's very small. If MX decides to move "faster and more aggressively" with more resources to expand it, that's big progress. Skepticism is in order but rush of NYT (&others) to pooh-pooh seems silly. https://t.co/sWuz7J5CRJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 9, 2019
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I dunno. We're a country with long, hard-to-seal borders that maybe a billion or two people would move to if given the chance. The principle of Don't F— With Us on Migration is pretty important in the long term also. Worth a little unpredictability. https://t.co/2QxCroP5ph
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Seems wrong to automatically dismiss the latest tariff-induced agreement with Mexico as unproductive. Don't think we know enough yet–eg about the scope of the Remain in Mexico program. Proof will be what happens with the numbers, no? https://t.co/Q2Aoru7rtX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Skeptical … https://t.co/Ta2PvAs5yi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Says here the existing Remain in Mexico program was expanded to "those apprehended in areas between official ports of entry in the Border Patrol's San Diego sector." So not just ports of entry in that sector. https://t.co/6dCDG7D9hs https://t.co/mMXXAb2T7O
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Are you sure it just affects ports of entry–that'd be gaping defect, but language refers to "across its entire Southern Border" & "those crossing the U.S. Southern Border to seek asylum." Does not mention POE. I guess all ambiguity should be read in the direction of weakness… https://t.co/mMXXAb2T7O
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Note also that the "existing" Remain in Mexico policy, which is all this agreement pledges to expand, does NOT apply to "unaccompanied minors." https://t.co/lk7TEbdUPN https://t.co/lut9HnadHL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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If Mexico really does that, great. (Many will stop coming north in the first place, because whole idea is to get into US. But MX may have to confront whether it really wants to be as generous in allowing asylum in MX as its laws suggest. See https://t.co/Bg1qEop9Ak) https://t.co/ZxB4JyPhln
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Cynical reading: US has pledged to expand Remain in Mexico "across its entire Southern Border." But has it pledged – and has Mexico agreed to — applying it to EVERY asylum-seeker, or only a small percentage (spread across entire border)? https://t.co/tO6TbCLNox
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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So the part doing the lifting here is Remain in Mexico (ie they apply here but stay in MX pending decision) and NOT Safe Third Country (which would say they couldn't apply in US at all if have passed through MX) … Remain in Mexico still a huge deal if they fully implement it https://t.co/EpgsI3CZHo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Good backgrounder for today's Mexico deal, whatever it is … https://t.co/Bg1qEop9Ak
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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Transparently obvious common sense alternative: Many "asylum seekers" don't want to go to Mexico. They want to get into U.S.. If they can only get as far as Mexico many (who aren't actually in asylum-level danger) won't come at all, they'll stay home-vastly diminishing any crisis https://t.co/IgRzidfcTN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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WHAT NPR WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE: A 'Safe Third Country" deal with Mexico "would just really move the migration crisis that we're currently seeing from the US border … down further south, just relocating the crisis."–@SarahPierceEsq https://t.co/AwAGtsEtfP Seems v-wrong 1/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2019
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