Joe Guzzardi
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Immigration
For more than 50 years, the roiling immigration debate has been wrongly framed. The arguments for or against immigration increases are seen as liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republican or expansionist versus restrictionist. While those labels may be accurate, they distract from a discussion about the core issue of economics. Congress, the media and employers argue passionately for… → Read More
Texas Ground Zero
Texas will hold its gubernatorial primary March 1, with a runoff scheduled for May 24, if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote. The question that Texas voters will face on Election Day, November 8, is whether a Democrat, likely to be two-time loser Robert O’Rourke, with a failed 2018 Senate bid and 2020 presidential campaign run that went nowhere, and an open border apologist… → Read More
Guzzardi: New assault on U.S. workers
Nothing stops the push by Congress for more immigration — not 9/11, not the mortgage meltdown and Wall Street crisis, not dismal Bureau of Labor Statistics job reports and not → Read More
Most Humane Border Policy: Enforcement
U.S. Border Patrol reports that fiscal year 2021 was the deadliest on record for migrant fatalities → Read More
Biden World
As seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, border crossers from the Rio Bravo head to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, to ask for asylum, Feb. 8, 2021. Image: Reuters Getting a dinner reservation at Per Se, New York’s restaurant of choice for the city’s royalty, is more difficult than entering the U.S. illegally. The wait for Per Se, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group dining experience, can… → Read More
Harry Reid once championed pro-American immigration reform
On Wednesday, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda, joining a long and growing list once limited to former presidents and military leaders. → Read More
Guzzardi column: Remembering an Ace Pitcher and War Hero
Whether Warren Spahn was on the mound or in World War II trenches, his opponents agreed that no one was tougher.Spahn’s 363 career wins are the most → Read More
Column: Chinese spy scandal may inclue a possible sex-for-secrets swap
A Chinese spy scandal is rocking Capitol Hill.The sordid tale is the stuff of thrillers: a possible sex-for-secrets swap that involved U.S. Representative → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | With no baseball, a look back at Nixon’s all-stars
During a normal Major League Baseball season, by mid-July fans would be anticipating the annual All-Star Game. But in 2020, COVID-19, the great killjoy, has forced the game’s cancellation, the firs… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | A baseball redemption story for troubled times
Before Commissioners Bud Selig and Rob Manfred transformed baseball into a game of launch angles and exit velocities, I attended Opening Day every year. So, when April 10, 1980, rolled around, I fo… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | Babe Ruth beat Spanish flu …twice
In 1918, an influenza panic much like today’s COVID-19 struck the nation. The Spanish flu, as it was often called, killed at least 50 million victims worldwide, and 675,000 in the U.S. Then-Surgeon… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | Unraveling California’s quick demise
Through incredibly good fortune, I’ve been unable to watch the tedious impeachment trial. I’m traveling and my destinations don’t have television. I can’t report having the same luck with the daily… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | A rare display of nonpartisanship
In what has become an annual display of businesses’ addiction to cheap labor, commerce leaders are lobbying the acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Chad Wolf, to increase the H-2B vis… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | Two baseball players who paved the way for integration
For most baseball fans, the season ends when the World Series final putout is made. But in 1946, the lucky residents of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Des Moines, Denve… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | Uber is latest cheap labor-addicted employer
Uber, the multinational ride-hailing company that burst onto the scene in 2009 and made Yellow Cab passe, has, at least superficially, enjoyed a phenomenal success record. Only a little more than a… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | CA’s leadership wants more immigration
The California Department of Finance announced that the state’s population fell just 40,000 people short of a historic 40 million residents. Sacramento demographers, as well as population experts n… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | August Jobs Report Omits Key Data About Future Challenges
Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August report – which showed that the economy had created a middling 130,000 new jobs – the White House issued an effusive stat… → Read More
Joe Guzzardi | The Border Crisis: Taking the Long-Term View
In one of her final appearances before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen concluded her testimony by saying that no sane nation w… → Read More
Why President Trump’s Immigration Plan Is Bad News For The Middle Class
The plan unveiled by the White House last week contains no E-Verify, no reduction in legal immigration, and more high-skill visas. → Read More
National View: Migrants can accept safe haven found in Mexico
The Central American caravan has conclusively proven three things.First, the migrants are economic migrants, and therefore don't qualify for asylum.Second,... → Read More