Posted on 12/27/2013 11:24:17 AM PST by honestabe010
In his press conference on December 20th, President Obama urged the House of Representatives to support the Senate’s immigration bill, which passed 68-32 in late June. Among the concerns cited by Americans who oppose reform are that immigrants will take their jobs, drive down wages, increase criminal activity, burden the welfare system, and reshape the cultural dynamic of the country. These concerns are mostly ill-founded. The legitimate concerns have real solutions, and a more open immigration policy will be a net benefit for all Americans...
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- A 2013 study by the American Action Forum states that "immigration reform can raise population growth, labor force growth, and thus growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).”
- In 2013 the Bipartisan Policy Center came to similar conclusions. It makes the prediction that current provisions, as included in the Senate Bill, would raise GDP 4.8 percent over twenty years.
- According to the Immigration Policy Center, immigrant males between the ages of 18 and 39 (which constitute the greatest portion of the prison population) are five times less likely to be incarcerated than are natives.
- A 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that 92 percent of second generation and 96 percent of third generation Hispanics speak English proficiently.
- A 2010 Gallup poll revealed that Hispanics attend church services more often than non-Hispanic whites.
- Since an influx of immigrants means an expansion of the labor supply, many assert that the result will be less jobs and lower wages. However, as asserted by Jason Riley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, “The number of jobs in the United States is not static. It’s fluid, which is how we want it to be.”
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I hope you feel better soon!
Thanks. I think I’m going nite-nite again.
Good luck on the day, or nite.
F , not yet but I need to go to work.
If you need someone to kick kiesters and take names while you're under the weather, I have a purple crayon and a Dora the Explorer spiral notebook at the ready.
Lo hicimos!
Kinda like a delicious-smelling heating pad. Good morning! Pouring here.
Good morning. We have sun! I think the cats are hiding in beds, anyway, but the people are enjoying the light.
Bad mood this morning...out of coffee, today I’m walking all over to pay bills, and I’m running late due to my daily ambush by a needy neighbor. I swear he keeps watch on when I exit my boat.
OMG here he comes right now...outtaheah
I did it from my phone, Bob...without my reading glasses!
Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig.
I’m still tired but not quite so breathless. And I DO have a better skin color than I did this time yesterday! LOL!
On the way home, I had to stop by the lab and have another CBC, but that was the least of my worries. The hard part was staying awake for the duration, yesterday. Cold and boring!
I had to reschedule the chemical stress test, though, as it was almost 2300 when I got to my friend’s house last night, and I just didn’t feel a test would be prudent today.
got aces?
That’s good news! You should rest now.
Hello we got hit with snow over night...13 1/2 inches. Total of 21 inches in 24hrs. We are at 55 inches now. It is funny to watch my dog in the snow trying to do his business. His ‘manhood’ is in the snow when he pees.
Later have a nice one.
My daughters say they don’t want 55” of snow!
Go fish!
No, no rest for the wicked and the good don’t need any. I have a few things to catch up on (getting my pill tray refilled, dishes, modifying a form and printing it...phone calls...) And I will do as much as my stamina allows.
It feels good to feel good!
lol! I look at it this way, I am happy for 55 inches of snow...it is better than 65 inches or 75!!!
Good to hear!!
I saw kids wearing shorts when I picked Tom up at school this afternoon.
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