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Immigration Benefits The U.S., So Let's Legalize All Work
forbes.com ^ | 9/16/2013 | Doug Bandow

Posted on 09/17/2013 7:46:34 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

Immigration reform, once the top priority coming out of the 2012 presidential election, has stalled. The Senate has passed legislation, but the House is badly divided.

The current system is a shambles. Legal categories and subcategories, quotas, and lotteries have created a flourishing legal industry. The immigration bureaucracy is a lower level of Dante’s Hell. Foreign students are turned away from U.S. universities, highly-skilled individuals are barred from working in America, and even political refugees sometimes are denied entry. Attempting to fence off the country is no answer to anything. It would be difficult for a generally free society with extensive borders to close out the rest of the world. Worse, to be effective such controls as ID cards, citizenship checks, workplace raids, employer sanctions, and more would undermine domestic liberties

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration
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To: Eva

“The point is, the culture is not compatible with freedom and capitalism.”

And a number of Freepers still don’t get this simple concept. But hey...they are “hard working people who will set up businesses..” LOL


21 posted on 09/17/2013 8:38:35 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: MadIsh32
When I think immigrants, in particular from the Middle East, I think entrepreneur.?

From your tagline, I would think you are libertarian. I was young and that way once. I would say you are either young are extremely naive.

There are forces at work in this world to destroy our Republic.

These people pouring in from the Middle East are not here to "live the American dream."

99% of all Islamic people coming from Middle East are coming for one reason -- to eventually destroy America as Founded.

Young libertarians are some of the most repulsive people I come across. Their arrogance knows no bounds.

22 posted on 09/17/2013 8:57:18 AM PDT by sand88
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To: moonshinner_09

Forbes just pushes Free Trade Communist Globalism drivel

With the unemployment and under-employment high...there is no need for illegal aliens or immigrants. If businesses cannot find qualified people....train them yourselves. Years ago businesses didn’t whine for welfare...they did things on their own


23 posted on 09/17/2013 11:54:59 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (A person who does not want to tariff Communist Chinese goods has no problem with taxing you)
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