And With That, Everybody Immediately Stopped Talking About Anchor Babies
“The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants — more than half of whom came illegally — the net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped — and may have reversed, according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of multiple government data sets from both countries.” [Pew]
What, nothing about Johnny Mill?? I expected Benedick to be holing candelight vigil by now!
Ha! It’s kismet that my edit button doesn’t work.
@flippin eck: On my Big Geek List o’ Chores, but unfortunately, so’s everything else.
Headline here is wildly optimistic – facts on the ground haven’t exactly stopped the teahadis and their enablers from shrieking about rising taxes (they’ve gone down), government expansion (going the other way, at federal, state AND local levels), or “dangerous streets” (Zimmermans aside, crime has continued to drop).
How come we never have polls any more?
@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Because I ran out of ideas a month ago.
@flippin eck: His silence can mean only one of two things: his power is out due to the big Nor’easter or Johnnie Earle’s security detail has detained him.
@al2o3cr:
Facts schmacts. It’s all about narrative to get rid of the Nearer.
@Mistress Cynica and flippin’: Ha!
We could start a poll about the whereabouts of Bene’sdick
So the Mexicans think that los Estados Unidos is more of a shitshow than Mexico? Oy.
@Dodgerblue: That’s saying something.
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