Morning Jolt: Uh-Oh. The Immigration Hawks Are Underwhelmed by the White House’s Proposal.

Mark Krikorian, who probably knows the details of immigration policy inside and out better than anyone, is not pleased with the White House's offer on immigration reform.

The amnesty and chain migration components are fatally flawed. The fact that the amnesty would include a path to citizenship (i.e., the beneficiaries would eventually get green cards like regular immigrants) is fine with me – if you're going to amnesty illegal aliens, just rip off the band-aid and get it over with. Instead, the issue is the size of the amnesty, or rather the universe of people who would be amnestied.

If – as the White House promised just days ago – the amnesty were confined to those who now actually have DACA work permits (or even those who had them but didn't renew), administering the amnesty would be relatively straightforward. All those people are already in the DHS database, and even if they were all re-examined as part of the amnesty process (to weed out the fraudsters that snuck past Obama's eagle-eyed DHS), it could still be done ...

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Uh-Oh. The Immigration Hawks Are Underwhelmed by the White House's Proposal. Jim Geraghty Mark Krikorian, who probably knows the details of immigration policy inside and out better than anyone, is not pleased with the White House's offer on immigration reform. The amnesty and chain migration components are fatally flawed. The fact that the amnesty would include a path to citizenship (i.e., the beneficiaries would eventually get green cards like regular immigrants) is fine with me – if you're going to amnesty illegal aliens, just rip off the band-aid and get it over with. Instead, the issue is the size of the amnesty, or rather the universe of people who would be amnestied. If – as the White House promised just days ago – the amnesty were confined to those who now actually have DACA work permits (or even those who had them but didn't renew), administering the amnesty would be relatively straightforward. All those people are already in the DHS database, and even if they were all re-examined as part of the amnesty process (to weed out the fraudsters that snuck past Obama's eagle-eyed DHS), it could still be done ... READ MORE The Pension Crisis Is Starting to Hit Home. School Choice Might Be the Only Answer. Lewis M. Andrews Talk to the people of Illinois about America's looming public-pension crisis, and they'll tell you it's not looming — it's already here. This month, a statute went into effect giving Comptroller... What Syria Teaches Us About 'America First' Jonathan S. Tobin What Syria Teaches Us About 'America First' ADVERTISEMENT Trump's Tariffs Are Statism on the March Jonah Goldberg The Trump administration is now moving to put some teeth on its promise to punish "unfair" trade from China and other countries. This week it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese and South Korean... Durbin-Graham Is the Problem, Not the Solution Rich Lowry After the experience of the past two weeks, it's not White House adviser Stephen Miller and Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas who should be expelled from immigration negotiations, but Dick Durbin... Democratic Immigration Extremism and Warnings of Extremism to Come David French Who's the racist who once said this: "All Americans . . . are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by... The Conspiratorial Mindset among the President's Supporters Mona Charen I am old enough to remember when conspiracy theories were primarily the province of the Left. In the 1990s, the San Jose Mercury News ran a series asserting that the crack epidemic in... ADVERTISEMENT Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution D. Peter MacLeod "Definitive . . . superb in its combination of individual perspective and strategic narrative . . . This book tells us – brilliantly – both how the battle was fought, and what it meant." - Eliot A. Cohen, author of Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War LEARN MORE Baseball Hall of Fame Tokyo Snowstorm ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.