Also, don’t forget that a lot of the good American-born kids who would be ideal employees are overseas fighting in wars with uncertain ends and endgame. I think a lot of the laxity in in enforcing immigration laws from year 2000 forward stem from the need to “draft” an adequate number of military personnel with a bleaker hypersaturated entry-level jobs environment.

Quietly support drawdowns in Afghanistan (though I think we should maintain a Germany/South Korea-like presence in Iraq), if only for the fact that it will bring home a lot of veterans looking for work. Operation Wetback (1954) and the end of the Korean War were not coincidently only a year apart.