Travels & Tales. A bit long.

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A variety of topics, with recent events but a way to string them together.

Wednesday

I'd just like to say that while I've been to passover seders before, as a non-Jew, I don't usually help run them. Still, the really informal apartment-style seder was in many ways way cooler than the real version, since we got to make things up if we couldn't

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I'm actually going to be in Washington again next weekend, although definitely no guarentees. But yeah, I was definitely busy this weekend, so it worked out anyway. (By the way, Bubbletea in New York is way more expensive than in College Park, even in Chinatown. Sigh.)

Anyway. I suppose the question is, assuming that there is some deterrent effect by making potential immigrants jump through hoops to come legally, which is worse? Having more immigrants come in legally, or having an underclass that exists in some shadow-realm free of silly things like law & tracking? Even if you don't like the first option, the second option has disturbing implications for national security, so at least wrap it up in a patriotic "register the immigrants to stop them from blowing up the Washington Monument" drivel. (That's what they did to Republicans on the fence over CAFTA; call it a national security bill, not an economics one)

Of course, this is an issue where I am a libtertarian, and would ask why the first option is even bad. Letting more people have an oppotunity to generate wealth and enjoy freedom sounds like a good deal for the world to me.

As for guest workers, yes, better just to give out more green cards and be honest, else we'll have a guest worker amnesty problem 10 years from now.

Moral: There is no moral. Politics sucks, since what looks like will actually happen is nothing... which I suppose is better than the catastrophe that would be the House bill. We'll just pay price #2, that of a large unregistered underclass.

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Heh, since we last met I discovered a cheaper, much better bubble tea place, also in college park (and yet a third, that I find unimpressive). I suspect that the unusually high concentration of Taiwanese students at the university has something to do with our tapioca-surplus. Perhaps there will be things about Maryland that I'll miss...