37 Quotes by Tamar Jacoby

What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.

When you combine this speech with the raids of last week and the talk in the Senate of adding enforcement money to the supplemental, they're saying you can enforce the border and have a guest worker program at the same time, in tandem.

I have concerns about whether it will be workable.

Bush is saying something that can be hard to explain. He's saying the way to control immigration and rationalize the system isn't to crack down harder but to open up the channels for more immigrants.

Is comprehensive reform a slam-dunk in Congress? Obviously not. This is a hard battle, but it makes a lot of difference to have the president with us instead of against us.

Some people are going to say it's amnesty, and others are going to say it creates a second-class caste of workers. It's a non-starter for both sides.

We need these workers to do jobs that americans aren't interested in doing anymore, and and right now, only two-thirds can come legally and the rest are coming illegally, and that illegality is really bothering the american people.

You have the classic standoff between the main street constituency and the business side of the party. In that case, the members tend to go where the voters are.

Voters can tell the difference between people who are grandstanding and those who are trying to solve problems.