What influence will David Axelrod have on immigration policy in the United Kingdom?
This is going to be one of the key issues in the 2015 general election, and David Axelrod is advising Labour on what to say in the run-up to that election.
In this discussion with Rand Paul on Thursday David Axelrod is asking leading questions that are sympathetic to finessing an amnesty for illegal immigrants in America: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/22/rand_paul_david_axelrod_debate_politics_at_university_of_chicago.html
In this interview with Credit Suisse he is advocating a relaxtion in visas for foreign students so that they can stay in America after their studies have finished: http://www.thefinancialist.com/the-political-machine-five-questions-with-david-axelrod/
It is a theme that he has pushed previously: http://thepage.time.com/2010/10/10/transcript-david-axelrod-on-state-of-the-union/
CROWLEY: What about immigration?
AXELROD: …is part of that. Education reform is part of that, and certainly immigration is an issue that we want to tackle. You know, a couple of years ago, there were 11 Republicans in the United States Senate who worked with Democrats to try and pass immigration reform. There were none in this last couple of years, but it’s an issue we have to solve. We have to impose some responsibility and accountability on this system and on people who are here illegally, on the borders, on employers who are skirting the law.
We also have to address the issue of people who are coming here to study. They’re being educated in American universities, and then they go back to their countries because our immigration laws don’t allow them to stay. They go back to their countries, and so we create assets for foreign competitors, and that’s another issue we have to address. So immigration certainly is part of the agenda we want to address going forward.
Therefore going forward can we expect to see Labour policies on immigration to include concessions to illegals who are here, and a softening on the granting of visas to foreign students?
David Axelrod is interested in deomgraphic change as a way of winning elections: "But looking at the demographic trends is telling. The most popular name for a new-borns in Texas is Jos?. There are millions of unregistered Hispanic voters there who will soon be registered. Within one or two cycles Texas, the largest star in the Republican firmament, will be a swing state" (http://www.ippr.org/juncture/inside-the-obama-campaign-an-interview-with-david-axelrod ) so presumably will be looking for covert ways to return to an open-door immigration policy for the United Kingdom.
And by the way, the same interview has a telling Axelrod view on campaigning on the economy:
"In a sense the debate over the debt ceiling was a microcosm of the wider debate between the Democrats and the Republicans. We made the argument that you grow the economy by investing in things which strengthen the middle class, and by cutting taxes for the wealthy. The Republicans stubbornly persisted with the message that if we just cut taxes, cut regulation and cut the budget the economy will take off.
You saw a similar situation in the UK - the public wasn't eager to go back to what they perceived as a reprise of the policies that had led to the crisis. So we knew what we had to do, and we just hammered away at it."
Cutting taxes for the wealthy?
This is going to be one of the key issues in the 2015 general election, and David Axelrod is advising Labour on what to say in the run-up to that election.
In this discussion with Rand Paul on Thursday David Axelrod is asking leading questions that are sympathetic to finessing an amnesty for illegal immigrants in America: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/22/rand_paul_david_axelrod_debate_politics_at_university_of_chicago.html
In this interview with Credit Suisse he is advocating a relaxtion in visas for foreign students so that they can stay in America after their studies have finished: http://www.thefinancialist.com/the-political-machine-five-questions-with-david-axelrod/
It is a theme that he has pushed previously: http://thepage.time.com/2010/10/10/transcript-david-axelrod-on-state-of-the-union/
CROWLEY: What about immigration?
AXELROD: …is part of that. Education reform is part of that, and certainly immigration is an issue that we want to tackle. You know, a couple of years ago, there were 11 Republicans in the United States Senate who worked with Democrats to try and pass immigration reform. There were none in this last couple of years, but it’s an issue we have to solve. We have to impose some responsibility and accountability on this system and on people who are here illegally, on the borders, on employers who are skirting the law.
We also have to address the issue of people who are coming here to study. They’re being educated in American universities, and then they go back to their countries because our immigration laws don’t allow them to stay. They go back to their countries, and so we create assets for foreign competitors, and that’s another issue we have to address. So immigration certainly is part of the agenda we want to address going forward.
Therefore going forward can we expect to see Labour policies on immigration to include concessions to illegals who are here, and a softening on the granting of visas to foreign students?
David Axelrod is interested in deomgraphic change as a way of winning elections: "But looking at the demographic trends is telling. The most popular name for a new-borns in Texas is Jos?. There are millions of unregistered Hispanic voters there who will soon be registered. Within one or two cycles Texas, the largest star in the Republican firmament, will be a swing state" (http://www.ippr.org/juncture/inside-the-obama-campaign-an-interview-with-david-axelrod ) so presumably will be looking for covert ways to return to an open-door immigration policy for the United Kingdom.
And by the way, the same interview has a telling Axelrod view on campaigning on the economy:
"In a sense the debate over the debt ceiling was a microcosm of the wider debate between the Democrats and the Republicans. We made the argument that you grow the economy by investing in things which strengthen the middle class, and by cutting taxes for the wealthy. The Republicans stubbornly persisted with the message that if we just cut taxes, cut regulation and cut the budget the economy will take off.
You saw a similar situation in the UK - the public wasn't eager to go back to what they perceived as a reprise of the policies that had led to the crisis. So we knew what we had to do, and we just hammered away at it."
Cutting taxes for the wealthy?
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