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April 01, 2006

Power to the People: Taking Charge on the Immigration Debate

 

 

Laura Ingraham’s radio show was red-hot Friday.

 

Here are some excerpts (you can hear the rest at her website) from her first hour on (what else) immigration:

 

Segment One

 

Segment Two

 

Laura gets it.

 

Later on in the show one caller said his landscaping business (doing the work no Americans supposedly want to do) went under because illegals were able to start competing businesses without being forced to get the necessary licenses, tax ID’s etc., while another caller asked, “why don’t (the illegals) go home and fix their problem (instead of running away from it)?”

 

The man on the street gets it.

 

Laura also quoted George J. Borjas, economist at Harvard Kennedy school of government from a Washington Post article: "What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers and toward employers," and highlighted the dropping wage for blacks out of high school. She also quoted AFL-CIO leader John Sweeny who pointed out essentially the same thing.

 

George Borjas and John Sweeny get it.

 

Laura’s sound byte of the day came from none other than Lou Dobbs:

 

There are 280 million legal citizens of this country. They are the ones carrying the burden of 20 million illegal immigrants. Oh, it's a great benefit for illegal employers. But don't you dare suggest that it is a benefit to working men and women, who are watching $200 billion of wages disappear every year because of illegal immigration. They're paying for their health care. They're paying for their children in schools that are overcrowded. We are failing the people who built this country, the American middle-class. Don't tell me how important illegal immigration is, because it's utter nonsense.

 

Lou gets it.

 

Why don’t the Wa$hington elite$ get it?

 

 

Posted by Martin at April 1, 2006 01:45 AM

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