Kitchen table discussion on the drug cartels in Mexico

Today I had a kitchen table discussion with Mom and Roy about immigration. Lately, I’ve been trying to avoid these, mostly because I feel like there’s not much actual exchange of information and insight, but tons of entrenched positions. This discussion, however, was reasonably good and provided some interesting thoughts.


Some highlights:

I think one of the reasons why immigration has gotten A LOT harder to talk about is because it has been conflated with national security. Specifically, Americans are scared of the drug violence in Mexico. So I think that needs ot be tackled before immigration policy becomes politically tractable.

CA-29 election flyer targets Asian-Americans

Updated 14:22 PDT: I uploaded low-resolution copies of the entire flyer. Some of the text is illegible. But given that there's nothing especially controversial in the flyer, I think the low-res images still convey the interesting approach taken in these political direct mailings. Let me know if you want high-resolution copies.

Interesting - Adam Schiff (D-CA 29th) just sent an update that contained Chinese characters and stated that he was "proud to represent such a large and vibrant Asian community". It also shows Schiff standing with an Asian-American winner of an art competition.

I wonder if the 34% of Whites and 26% of Hispanics (both larger fractions of the population, according to 2000 Census/Wikipedia) received the same flier.