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Posner gives conservative case for amnesty - it's just like snitching!

By Gritsforbreakfast

I don't say this often, but thank heavens for Federal Circuit Judge Richard Posner.While in general I find Judge Posner's quirky economics in the "law and economics" field he helped establish a bit ham-handed and supply-sided for my own tastes, for good or ill he's an unabashed conservative, and on debates about immigration these days it's difficult to find actual conservative opinions because of so many nativist ones masquerading in conservatives' garb. Deportation is not plausible, he writes on his blog, because:The United States does not have enough police and other paramilitary personnel, or sufficient detention facilities, to round up and deport 12 million persons (our prisons and jails are bursting with 2 million inmates), and even if it did, the shock to the economy would be profound, as the vast majority of the illegal immigrants are employed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).