Charles Barkley makes for an interesting interview

[grysar]

There's a TNR interview with him (probably subscriber only).

I tend to agree with him on immigration:

"Illegal immigration to me is the easiest thing in the world to fix.. All they have to do is penalize the people they work for. You should get penalized. It's all poor people who argue over illegal immigration.They want poor people to--I call it divide and conquer... A lot of these politicians say things like"We've got to stop all these illegal immigrants." I am like, "That is so easy to stop." They are not working for other immigrants."

I'll have to check out his sports show at some point when it's covering something of interest to me.

Comments

[grysar.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there's too much support for in anti-illegal immigration circles for increasing the amount of legal U.S. immigration though. Although that's somewhat of a gut call. I'm not sure if it's been polled.

[lampbane.livejournal.com]

Is the legal immigration rate really low, though? I don't get the feeling that it is, even with the post 9/11 atmosphere.

[grysar.livejournal.com]

I think 9/11 mostly affected more highly skilled workers and student (due to countries of origin). So yeah, it's not really the issue here.

My use of the word "low" was relative to apparent demand. The amount of illegal immigration does vary some based on the state of economy. It drops off some during recessions.

By many other standards it's probably not particularly low.