Monday, April 26, 2010

Immigration Embrace May Be Republican Game Change: Amity Shlaes

April 21 (Bloomberg) -- Over the weekend neo-Nazis in Los Angeles were out protesting against immigration. Some in the Republican Party also are hostile to immigration, while much of the rest of the country doesn’t view the issue as a priority.

With youth unemployment at 25 percent, voters wonder if there will be enough jobs to go around in future. There is also a concern that the country needs all the energy it has to start up its own engine. Entitlement obligations are moving from troubling to apocalyptic. The default American view is that expanding immigration can come only after we overcome economic sluggishness and the entitlements logjam. That is to say, never.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-20/immigration-embrace-may-be-republican-game-change-amity-shlaes.html

Posted by (Julio Navarro)

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