the border probably the dollar spent on more security at the border, isn t going to get you very much. i would emphasize, employer i would emphasize, ports and employer verification. a lot more. that s in the bill. i would probably amp that up. exactly. it would have to go much deeper than this bill, though. because what you re talking about, a bill like what you re talking about, would have to recognize the reality of the interconnectedness of the mexican and u.s. economies. and the flows, the annual and seasonal flows of people back and forth across the border, the links people have across the border. and it would take that into account in, you know, a realistic sort of real-world way. and we re expecting real world out of the you see congress? you re not going to get it. real world out of the senate, saying nothing of the house, where the raoul labrador, i believe, mocked the fear of a large senate passing, 70-vote passage of immigration reform saying, ooh, i m scared.
0 goldberg. business and economics correspondent for slate matthew iglesias. and senior fellow at the budget and policy committees, jared bernstein. thank you all for joining me on this day of days. eugene, it s pretty amazing to me that the house republicans are pinning this or trying to pin this on the democrats. yeah. i mean, you know, one wonderses what nancy bell osi really thinks of that. i wish she would speak plainly. you know, john boehner really is in a pickle, because a huge chunk of his caucus doesn t want to pass anything. you know, they don t want to pass a farm bill, they re certainly not want to pass immigration reform. they don t want to do anything, basically. and he does. so what s a solution there? i m not sure. you know, he could ram through immigration and ram through a form bill, lose his speakership. ram through implies taking the lead, which john boehner has proven himself constitutionally tacked it on a bill and forfeited votes as a nod to the i had o
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