David Brat, Right on Free-Market Economics, But he should apply it to immigration reform.

National Review ^ | 06/12/2014 | Larry Kudlow

[Lisbon1940]

No, but they might make good Marines.

[SharpRightTurn]

“his anti-immigration-reform message is quite troublesome.”

Hey, Kudlow—return the checks from the Chamber of Commerce and Suckerberg.

You’ll feel a lot better about yourself knowing that you’re not prostituting yourself out for Big Business money any longer.

[Smokin' Joe]

And if the 11 million illegals who live here obey the law, pay taxes, learn English, and understand the Constitution, they deserve legal status

He lost me on the ..."obey the law" part.

They're ILLEGALS for a reason. They broke the law coming in the door.

And what about the other 29 million?

[SpeakerToAnimals]

The comments at the source bash this idiot Kudlo. Writing crap offensive to the readers should get the moron fired. But the media is the industry where the customer is always wrong.

[impimp]

I want more immigrants. I want US immigration expanded. I want more guest workers.

I want no chain migration to extended family. I want no illegal or anyone found to be illegal to have access to legal US immigration. They need to leave the country. I am in favor of rapid mass deportation and/or incarceration.

[Altura Ct.]

If ‘free market’ means we have to commit some type of national suicide - count me out.

[thestob]

Kudlow you jackass....you’ve never even seen an illegal except the ones that bus your table at the $100 dollar an entree restaurant.....so just shut up, moron

[DPMD]

Stop the mantra of “reaching out.” It isn’t outreach that grows a true republican party, but an open arms policy that says this: Here’s who we are and what we believe. If you want to join that, we will welcome you with open arms.

Outreach is pandering and is BS.

[ansel12]

Libertarianism

IMMIGRATION:
“”THE ISSUE: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government’s policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.

THE PRINCIPLE: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.

SOLUTIONS: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.

TRANSITIONAL ACTION: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.””

[Svartalfiar]

A new study from the University of California-Davis and Colgate University strongly rebuts this position. The researchers write: “A lot of people have the idea there are a fixed number of jobs. But immigrants can boost productivity of the overall economy, because then the pie grows and there are more jobs for other people as well, and there is not a zero-sum tradeoff between natives and immigrants.”

Kind of. The same thing happens with taxes - the government takes a little from everyone, but doesn't create nearly as much as is taken out. Same thing here, yes, there will be more jobs created as there's a stronger demand for services, food, etc. But the net gain overall is still much less than the net loss for natives. You'll get a better gain for natives (and probably tax-paying positions) if the illegals were removed.