Ramesh Ponnuru has a great article in opposition to a guest worker program. We should welcome new immigrants as prospective citizens. If you look at that article alongside Ponnuru’s articles on taxes and the Republican party’s agenda problem, you can see the outline of a patriotic, populist, limited government politics as opposed to the myopic high-earner interest group politics that seems to have captured the imagination of too many Republican leaders.
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