Ira Mehlman Quotations | Page 2

He's going to run into stiff opposition. I suspect that he will also find himself the target of people who believe that what he's doing is really detrimental to the well-being of the American middle class.

Stopping illegal immigration doesn't happen entirely at the border.

I think it's going to be difficult for the president. Whatever political capital he thought he had last year is spent and, like the rest of the federal government, is in deficit. Amnesty, on a visceral level, most Americans object to.

There is no reason to flood the labor market with more unskilled workers when we have a more than ample supply in this country.

But churches have been actively involved in aiding people who are breaking the law. Churches should not expect to be exempt when they're disobeying the law.

The idea that if you break the law and put yourself and your family in that situation, that it's unfair for the government to take action against you, doesn't make any sense. It's unfortunate when these thing happen, but you have to look at who created the situation in the first place.

Given the president's approval rating these days, and with one-third of the Senate up for re-election this year, they are not going to follow the president off the cliff on this one.

If the federal government isn't going to do the job and Arizona is footing billions of dollars a year for illegal aliens, it makes sense for the state to get involved.

Why admit people with TPS if you know they're never going to leave.

The whole thing is a sham. At the end of nine years all these people are going to thank us and go home?