Frum addressed all of Vargas' questions and charges during the interview, but the real conflict was between one man's desire to engage on the question of limits and another man's desire to avoid it.
The RAISE Act is exactly what a Congress would pass if it were committed to the idea of helping tens of millions of struggling Americans in stagnant jobs or outside the labor market altogether.
Here is my statement to the nation's news media on why this should be a compassionate mandate for the President and the Congress.
President Trump's hyperbolic comments about the country being "full" were followed by numerous media responses, like The New York Times article by The Upshot's Neil Irwin and Emily Badger, as if it needed to be explained to anyone that the country isn't actually "bursting at the seams" with people.
As Earth Day approaches, the physicist Steven Chu and the naturalist David Attenborough are issuing separate warnings about population pyramid and ponzi schemes.
More moderate levels of immigration such as those proposed by multiple commissions over the past decades are more compatible with environmental sustainability and economic justice than are the historically-high levels currently in place.
The government jobs report today estimated that 196,000 new ones were created in the U.S. during March. But how many lifetime and temporary work permits were given out at the same time for foreign workers?
America has a population growth policy. Immigration laws are responsible for between 88% and 95% of U.S. population growth. America has a housing appreciation policy. Population growth results in higher housing costs. There's nothing more fundamental than housing, and every single American has a stake in this.
With water shortages an increasing concern, we need to measure the true value of perpetual growth.
While dozens of Members of Congress continue to refer to border apprehension statistics from 2017, the crisis along the Southern border continues to intensify. The number of illegal border crossers apprehended last month exceeded any month over the last 6 years, and the number of Family Units apprehended is already ahead of FY18 after only five months.