{"id":189245,"date":"2010-04-30T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/30\/rachael-maddow-eviscerates-anti-immigration-group\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:38:00","slug":"rachael-maddow-eviscerates-anti-immigration-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/30\/rachael-maddow-eviscerates-anti-immigration-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Maddow Eviscerates Anti-Immigration Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this last night, and now the video is out.<\/p>\n<p>I am a hardliner on immigration.  I think that the immigration laws should be aggressively enforced, that border controls should be strengthened, and that oft-abused visa programs (H1b, L1) should be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe that the focus should be on the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">employers<\/span>, because if the cost of employing illegals exceeds that of legal hiring, then it will stop.  (My proposals are <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/my-proposals-on-immigration.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, most of the political groups out there, aside from labor unions, that want a hard line taken, are populated by racist nativists.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point is Ms. Maddow&#8217;s masterful take-down of the crypto-racists at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).  She runs down its history, and then interviews its president, Dan Stein.<\/p>\n<p>He is left an oily smudge on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Just watch it, it is 19 minutes and 33 seconds well spent.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc88e7dd\" class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=36862136&#038;width=420&#038;height=245\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc88e7dd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=36862136&#038;width=420&#038;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this last night, and now the video is out. I am a hardliner on immigration. I think that the immigration laws should be aggressively enforced, that border controls should be strengthened, and that oft-abused visa programs (H1b, L1) should be fixed. I also believe that the focus should be on the employers, because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}