The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is …

- Mark Krikorian

In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of th…

- Mark Krikorian

Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that you're …

- Mark Krikorian

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing busin…

- Mark Krikorian

Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that th…

- Mark Krikorian

But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business l…

- Mark Krikorian

And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Re…

- Mark Krikorian

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information ac…

- Mark Krikorian

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the l…

- Mark Krikorian