CATO Institute: don’t complain about illegals if you don’t support legal immigration

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legal immigration

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What this should look like in and of itself is a sticking point. Come to the border, show a fake id, and fill out a one-page five question form and you're in what these Liberals are after

I’m ok with some legal immigration but it really went off the rails about 1900 when we started letting Italians in

CATO seems very liberal. Is that supposed to be their thing?

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it really went off the rails about 1900 when we started letting Italians in

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Some say it happened when we let in the Irish.


NSFW

They posted it like they were dunking on conservatives then got crushed in the comments.

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CATO seems very liberal

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They're libertarian. Nobody reads their shite unless it's a leftwing hack looking for a gotcha.

They are, however, a good source for studies on things like Sports are Great, but Goverment Studies Stink
and infrastructure

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Frequent calls to support infrastructure spending led to the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. The law increased federal spending on infrastructure over five years by $550 billion. Unfortunately, the legislation did not tackle the distortions created by existing federal subsidies for infrastructure. Indeed, the law will increase distortions by expanding the scope of subsidies to include the broadband, electricity, and automobile industries. In turn, these new subsidies will likely encourage more private industries to lobby Washington for subsidies down the road

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It is an
organization that promotes traditional values.

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Lol. They promote anything and everything just like good libertarians. They only oppose the government.

I don’t support either

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I’m ok with some legal immigration but it really went off the rails about 1900 when we started letting Italians in

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I know your schtick, but they were vetted at Ellis Island and the ones that did not pass were immediately shipped back, paid for by the shipping companies.

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CATO seems very liberal. Is that supposed to be their thing?

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No. This board probably agrees with 95% of their non-immigration based positions.

They are generally very pro-immigration though. I don't always agree with everything David Bier says, but overall we are very close on our positions.

Until the legal immigration system is reformed, the illegal immigration problem won't be fixed. Obviously here anything short of "no immigration" isn't an acceptable solution, but that's not a realistic position.