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At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
« on: May 02, 2021, 02:43:43 pm »
At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
Advocates for levels its own polling shows Americans oppose
By Robert Law on April 30, 2021

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship held a hearing this week entitled, “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Barriers to Legal Immigration”. The Democratic members and the three witnesses they invited used the hearing to suggest that (1) there are not enough avenues for legal immigration; and (2) we are not admitting enough legal immigrants. I was the lone witness invited by the GOP and testified about how the high levels of legal immigration, both permanent and temporary, harm American workers.

One of the more remarkable takeaways from the hearing was the testimony of the Cato Institute’s David Bier, who repeatedly claimed that immigration does not negatively impact the wages and job opportunities for Americans and called for unlimited legal immigration. Here are a few examples:

    No, [immigrants] absolutely do not hurt Americans.

This, of course, is demonstrably false. Pew found that the real wages of non-college-educated Americans have stagnated or declined over the last 40 years. It took a decade for the wages of hourly workers to return to pre-Great Recession levels.

https://cis.org/Law/House-Hearing-Cato-Calls-Unlimited-Immigration

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Re: At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2021, 02:58:18 pm »
Unlimited immigration plus a generous public safety net = a bankrupt nation. Even an idiot can see this.

Cato loses all credibility here.

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Re: At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2021, 03:16:45 pm »
This is consistent with the Cato Institute's libertarian philosophy.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2021, 04:16:37 pm »
Unlimited immigration plus a generous public safety net = a bankrupt nation. Even an idiot can see this.

Cato loses all credibility here.

They didn't have much to begin with.  They've fallen a long way over the past 20-30 years or so.
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Re: At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2021, 01:21:10 am »
I'll add CATO as another four letter word.
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Re: At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2021, 03:37:19 am »
At House Hearing, Cato Calls for Unlimited Immigration By Robert Law on April 30, 2021.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship held a hearing this week entitled, “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Barriers to Legal Immigration”. The Democratic members and the three witnesses they invited used the hearing to suggest that (1) there are not enough avenues for legal immigration; and (2) we are not admitting enough legal immigrants. I was the lone witness invited by the GOP and testified about how the high levels of legal immigration, both permanent and temporary, harm American workers.
One of the more remarkable takeaways from the hearing was the testimony of the Cato Institute’s David Bier, who repeatedly claimed that immigration does not negatively impact the wages and job opportunities for Americans and called for unlimited legal immigration. Here are a few examples:
No, [immigrants] absolutely do not hurt Americans.
This, of course, is demonstrably false. Pew found that the real wages of non-college-educated Americans have stagnated or declined over the last 40 years. It took a decade for the wages of hourly workers to return to pre-Great Recession levels.
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Wonder if Bozo Bier, ever heard of the "Sovereign Right of Nation/States", formulated
by the Treaty of Westphalia?