On the taking less welfare thing:
My favorite immigration related writer is Mickey Kaus. I like his stuff specifically because he comes at the issue from a liberal persuasion.
He recently posted this:
https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/1801139071051595905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1801139071051595905%7Ctwgr%5E86677aa0bb68418fd40500bf354578652d2b0373%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kausfiles.com%2Fpage%2F2%2FMost conservatives and libertarians don't put much thought into income inequality bit I believe that it is a MAJOR problem in our society.
Stop and think about this for a minute:
How many of my upper half (even Fro) college-educated fellow posters spend significant amounts of time with social equals (ie, not employees) from the lower half?
In practice America is divided sharply along this line. The college educated almost universally get married before they have kids, and raise their kids as a two parent team. Additionally, as this divide becomes multi-generational, the upper half are also MUCH more likely to have college educated siblings and parents as well.
Meanwhile for the lower half, marriage and college are largely seen as out of reach. Single moms with a HS education or less struggle to raise kids on their own and because this is a multi-generational issue most of them also do not have college educated parents or siblings to ask for help.
Consider it from the perspective of the kid. Most of our kids have two parents and they both have degrees and they also frequently have college educated aunts, uncles, and grandparents. On the other side of 'the tracks' the kids have a HS dropout mom, a list of suspects for paternity, and nobody in their family has ever been to a college graduation.
Life is already tough enough for the unskilled laborers from the latter category, why do we insist on making it tougher by importing extra competition for their jobs?
