Dispelling Myths: The Case for Immigration Reform [Enjoy your made-in-America ZOT, troll]

Red Dirt Report ^ | 12/27/2013 | Brian Woodward

[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...

Highlights from Article:

- 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.”

[Darksheare]

Wait, they have to come back?

[Tax-chick]

There’s always a catch ... but it seems like even people who don’t want to spend any time with their children (or why are they employing Tom?) care about their being physically intact at a specific location in our space-time continuum.

If it was me, “We’re going to P841786, and we’ll be back by Thursday,” would be good enough.

[Monkey Face]

Hey. I can deal with that! LOL!

[Darksheare]

“We’re going to Manit Tabae to study the home of the blgthrgths. Keep your helmets on at all times, we’ll be returning next Thursday. And make certain you do NOT touch the venomous beasty that looks like a frog, please!”

[Monkey Face]

If I can’t touch the frog, I ain’t goin’!

[Darksheare]

It’s the size of a car!

[Monkey Face]

*hmpf*

So YOU say....

[Tax-chick]

“You DO have your vaccination records on file, don’t you?”

[NicknamedBob]

How do you get vaccinated against being swallowed?

[Darksheare]

Well, we might.
Some records got scrambled and need to be rebuilt.
The medbot will be by shortly.

[Darksheare]

Oh, that’s easy.
Wear the spiked armor.

[Tax-chick]

You don’t, but it might be contagious, right?

[Monkey Face]

I’ve been telling people for years: I don’t get rabies, I GIVE it...and so on, with other diseases..

[ThomasThomas]

I don’t get it? How can you give what you don’t have? Got it?

[Tax-chick]

Oh, if you had rabies something would have happened by now.

[NicknamedBob]

I don’t suffer from depression, but I may be a carrier.

[Silentgypsy]

Lol!

[Silentgypsy]

*czckle* You guys are killing me lol!

[Tax-chick]

Not to me, but I can’t speak for the general public.

[Tax-chick]

1,300.