Scott Greer thinks that conservatism has changed.
He was arguing with me on X earlier this afternoon about his book Whitepill when the news broke that Sen. John Curtis was trying to create a federal version of Utah’s old guest worker program. For those who don’t remember this Tea Party-era cheap labor program, Utah was sued by the Obama administration which succeeded in blocking the guest worker program from taking effect.
“Utah Sen. John Curtis announced the introduction of a bill on Monday that would create a voluntary state-sponsored visa program, allowing state legislatures to expand their temporary migrant workforce.
The legislation, introduced with Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, appears to mirror a 15-year-old proposal passed in Utah as part of the 2011 Compact on Immigration, but which never received federal approval.
Curtis’ bill would mark a major reform to federal immigration law, if it can make its way through congressional gridlock, by letting states manage their own state-level guest-worker initiatives based on local labor demands. …”
It is 2026.
We’re now 11 years into MAGA and the GOP is still hopelessly subservient to Big Ag. Trump himself has said that the “Radical Right” would have to get over it. They are still kicking around these old ideas. This is also separate from the new farmworker amnesty introduced by House Republicans.
The truth is that the GOP never stopped pushing for amnesty. Comprehensive immigration reform was pushed during the Biden administration. The DREAM Act never went away. The Dignity Act is introduced in every Congress. Lindsey Graham died a MAGA hero after spending his entire career in the Senate pushing for various amnesties like his last attempt to grant legal status to Afghan refugees.
He sorta looks like peewee herman