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Jennifer Rubin, who scribes the pro-immigration "Right Turn" column in the Washington Post, denounces Jason Richwine for the high crime of Noticing Things:

Heritage stumbles, again and again 

Robert Rector and Jason Richwine weighed in on what amnesty will cost the American taxpayer in The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer, May 6, 2013. Today I saw this on Twitter:

C-Span's Brian Lamb always asks the good questions on Booknotes. Sometimes they seem mindlessly simple, in that you think he’s asking something that not only he should know, but that everybody should know.

(Canadian) Frum: Doing a job Americans afraid to do!

Jeff Sessions may be right! In a development as significant in the word of public controversy as seeing the first migrant birds of the season on the wing, punditry entrepreneur David Frum has dared to risk his privileged position at The Daily Beast and associated MSM perquisites by writing an immigration-skeptic column. As befits his NeoCon Royalty status, this was then picked up by Real Clear Politics today.

A Nonsense Consensus May 6, 2013 amusingly dwells on the same Euro row

Brenda Walker points, below, to a Rasmussen Poll that says that "just 30% of Americans view Mexico as an ally of the United States." [54% Think Mexico Should Compensate U.S. for Costs of Illegal Immigration, Rasmussen Reports, May 6, 2013]

H/T One Old Vet

As one would expect in the light of his excellent Amnesty work this year, Daniel Horowitz has come up with an incisive and succinct summary of the Heritage study (pdf):  Robert Rector’s Study: Open Borders + Welfare State = Disaster  Madison Project Monday May 6th 2013

According to Rector, “over a lifetime, the former unlawful immigrants together would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay $3.1 trillion in taxes.” That’s a net cost of $6.3 trillion in combined federal, state, and local benefits. The annual net cost will be roughly $112 billion. The majority of expense will be the result of increased educational and welfare costs.

Characteristically, Horowitz has some penetrating

There are a lot of polls around these days that refer to illegal immigration and mass amnesty, but the Rasmussen survey suggests that the less than a third of Americans believe Mexico is a friend. An earlier poll showed Americans don’t think Mexico wants the immigration problem fixed.

Mexico is by far the biggest sender of illegal aliens, so this attitude is not an insignificant item. If Mexico the national entity is hostile, then the mass of its population must be seen in the same way.

And why should the Mexicans want a big cash cow killed off? The pests south of the Rio Grande get over $20 billion in free-to-them remittances every year. It’s money that goes to poor families, and subtracts from social welfare pesos the Mexican government needs to shell out to its citizens.

54% Think Mexico Should Compensate U.S. for Costs of Illegal Immigration, Rasmussen Reports, May 6, 2013

President Obama met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto late last week to discuss ways to reduce violence and drug trafficking along

Rubio: "But I'm Hispanic - they said I didn't have to work!"

Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker whose evisceration of the Amnesty/Immigration Bill I praised on Friday has posted a reply, purportedly by Marco Rubio. For reasons that escape me, Hinderaker eschews making a rebuttal.

That does not restrain Mickey Kaus, who has posted Rubio goes Fake Mean at his Daily Caller blog

Rubio: Illegals will pay fines or be deported! Ambassador of Amnesty Marco Rubio