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Filoli historic house and garden, December 2022

Greg Sargent @ThePlumLineGS

Big news: Sen. Thom Tillis and Kyrsten Sinema have reached a deal on a framework of immigration reforms: *Protections for 2 million Dreamers *New resources to speed processing asylum seekers *Fast removal of migrants who don't qualify More details here:

washingtonpost.comOpinion | Finally, a bipartisan deal to help the ‘dreamers’ is within reachWill Republican senators act, or do they just want to demagogue the issue forever?

This is great! It's nice to see congress pass laws! The white house also believes more immigration will be good. The Niskanen center believes this will add 1.2 Trillion to US GDP over the next 10 years.

Threads

• Tim Lee gets into detail on why the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a bad idea

• Thread about BYD, a Chinese manufacturer of electric cars that's closing in on Tesla's production numbers. China produces two tiers of products, Premium for G7 countries and 'good enough' for everyone else.