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...
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.”
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First heard in Sunday school at church about 50 years ago. If NoCmpromiz can get a bunch of kids together, it’s a good song to play at services.
Which is an endeavor closely related to herding cats...
That’s a cute and very simple song. I think I’ll try teaching it to the Cub Scouts!
I thought we were trying to teach cats.
Never mind. Coffee ...
My cats don’t sing.
Heh, post 1966: the year I was born.
Honey child, ...
I can show you the college textbooks I was studying.
This whole space-time continuum thing is so confusing.
Good luck on having the next one make more sense.
I think that’s more indicative of my night. The day was bad in its own right.
And today may not be much of an improvement until I can get something for pain. Ungh...
I was running after a hyper- two year old.
You people are rather old.
And don’t forget, my dear, you, too, shall follow... LOL!
I’ve earned every one of my gray hairs! ;o]
They arn’t grey.
The mirror has just decided to gang up on you.
The older the mirror the more likely they are to do this.
Ah. Thanks, Moosie!
(scolding mirror: BAD mirror!! Go to your wall! And no wise cracks, either!)
There. That ought to set it straight...
Mine is genetic.
If I have any left by the time I’m 80, it should be snow white. At least, that’s what my sibs got.
Yep. Right before The Great War a lot of Germanic people came to the new world. Mexico got German music and German beer, both to their benefit, at that time.
My mom's parents (both sides) decided mining coal in Colorado was a step up from whatever they faced in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
They were right.
Did they get the dwarves to complete the set?
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