Hard questions about how to fix the fundamental drivers of immigration as long as they funded more enforcement agents and build higher senses. This broke down in the 1990s because they immigrants began to increase and dispersed throughout the country instead of concentrated in border states, people began to view the numbers that were emerging as more of a problem, especially after the 9 11 attacks, the equilibrium broke down when immigration control was seen as a National Security issue. So since the late 90s and since 9 11 we have seen an additional security measures put at the border and in the u. S. These enforcement measures, i argue, seem to have reached a Tipping Point where the number of unauthorized immigrants in the u. S. Today has been going down. The number peeked in 2007 at 12. 4 million. Theres been a 10 reduction, almost a million less. Its a little hard to assess exactly how important the enforcement measures are in driving that decrease because many of the most importan
The dream act. When you only get 27 wasnt that of the latino vote in the last president ial election i dont think you want to go into this one by starting out with a declaration of war against the latino community. Now Mitch Mcconnell in the last day up in hershey, pennsylvania basically from what weve heard told the House Republicans were not going to do that in the senate. Were not going to go there because we dont think thats a smart move for the party. I think they have to deliver on issues that are important to the American People and get off the just anything obamas for is wrong. Get off the basically the chamber of commerce, if you will and you think for the 1 is good and deliver on some things like immigration reform. I would suggest maybe even climate change, tax reform trade issues. Not far left issue, but things where they can come together. Amy weve seen this dynamic play out very prominently inside republican circles since the rise of the tea party. Theyve been trying to h
Office as well. Joe served in a number of different positions as bill has, ranging from committees and the house to the office of management and budget in the administration, and has served as chief economist, staff director and variety of those positions and served with bill on the Bipartisan Policy Centers Debt Reduction task force which came out in 20 10, which came out with a plan to reduce the debt which is inherited some of the proposals and policies that bill has been talking about up here with tax reform, entitlement reform. So joe youre jumping in the middle here, but we were talking the question was in terms of priorities in the federal budget and the growth in the Entitlement Programs and Interest Payments and how thats crowding out some of the other pieces. And so what do you think of the federal budget in terms of how it addresses our priorities as a country and where you see it moving forward . Well, i assume that bill probably used this word already three times, the budg
The tax issue. Shai mentioned at the outset that another component of the federal budget that is fast growing, and will continue to will grow fast, depending upon something that is right now being controlled and almost by Global Economics and that is Interest Rates, that the Fastest Growing component of the federal budget will be if Interest Rates normalize back at 5 will be just paying the interest on the public debt. Our public debt right now is close to about 17 trillion total gross debt, 17 trillion. And one thing that that debt means to me, it is a tax, it is a tax on future generations. It is not a it is, again, here, youre getting screwed doubly. Your Social Security benefits are not going to be there, and more importantly, youre going to have to pay for that debt that were accumulating today. Either pay the taxes today, and now in fairness, i would say you cant get yourself out of this without increasing taxes today as well as or else the taxes you get the taxes in the future o
Is that agricultural employers dont like it very much. Because it includes theyre required to pay temporary workers more than they would have to pay u. S. Workers because its designed to protect u. S. Workers. And so agricultural employers have found it cumbersome and inconvenient to use. And because we dont really enforce employer sanction laws theyve gone around it and hired a lot of unauthorized workers instead. The h2b visa is for lowskilled nonagriculture workers in temporary jobs. The reason i dont consider it a fix and employers are willing to use that because it offers less protections than h2a to workers. The reason its a limited fix is that its only limited to seasonal jobs. So if you want to hire a worker to work in your restaurant or your factory or, you know your Service Sector job as a janitor, none of those jobs are covered. It has to be a job that is timelimited and its limited to 65,000 visas a year. So it only covers it basically covers people in truly Seasonal Work l