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Dispelling Myths: The Case for Immigration Reform [Enjoy your made-in-America ZOT, troll]
Red Dirt Report ^ | 12/27/2013 | Brian Woodward

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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To: NicknamedBob

I’m never gonna stop the rain by complaining.


201 posted on 01/02/2014 4:29:20 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: Cyber Liberty; sionnsar; LibreOuMort; Darksheare; null and void; NicknamedBob; JoeProBono; ...

Happy New Year to you and yours, and the entire UT membership as well. I love y’all too.

Thank you so much for lending me Fred the Insane. What a precious little sweetie!


202 posted on 01/02/2014 4:35:58 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Darksheare

Oh, for Heaven’s sake. Just tell her to get her drapes over to her room at once because I’m looking for her!

That should shake her loose.


203 posted on 01/02/2014 4:37:58 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare; sionnsar; LibreOuMort

Thanks for the digs.

Sionnsar bump!


204 posted on 01/02/2014 4:40:45 PM PST by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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To: TheOldLady

205 posted on 01/02/2014 4:43:27 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: TheOldLady

Ooh!
Color change and louder buzzing rattles!


206 posted on 01/02/2014 4:43:57 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: fanfan

Welcome, bumpity bump.


207 posted on 01/02/2014 4:44:31 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: TheOldLady

He’s Fred. The CatEquivalent of three catz, because he’s Insane. We have 5 kittehs, but with the FTI unit it’s like 7. He’s very brainy, knows how to do stuff, and he’s big enough to open doors. But his mind seems to be set on “kitten” because he never uses his powers for good....


208 posted on 01/02/2014 4:50:34 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Darksheare

She finally showed up. Thanks for getting her back to me.

Um... I think...


209 posted on 01/02/2014 6:20:19 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: JoeProBono

Oooh! Pretty dragon, and thank you for the rose. My favorite.


210 posted on 01/02/2014 6:21:47 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Cyber Liberty

He’s still a pretty cool dude.


211 posted on 01/02/2014 6:22:47 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

Kerblacht in nesting mode.
Greeeeat.


212 posted on 01/02/2014 6:53:42 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
"I’m never gonna stop the rain by complaining."

Never jump off a cliff into a river worrying about whether you can swim.

The fall will probably kill you.

213 posted on 01/02/2014 6:55:35 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you voted for 0bama to show that you're not a racist, you're a racist. -- NicknamedMike)
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To: TheOldLady

The coolest. He hangs out in the hallway, just to stymie the Daddoo, the biggest Ogre in the house.....


214 posted on 01/02/2014 7:23:58 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty; Darksheare; Silentgypsy; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; All
So I ventured out into the wind and the storm and the solid glowbull warmthing to see if my prediction back in post 152 was holding true. The Town has made a pass down the side road with their Solidified GW relocation device, but our driveway doesn't open on the side road that the Town maintains. It opens on a County Road and there is no evidence of a county governmental glowbull warmthing relocation device having passed this way.

I would guess that the County workers are all home in their onesies, sipping hot chocolate, and talking about.. Oh wait, that was another thread..

So as of this moment movement into and out of our driveway can be accomplished without the need on my part to exert either muscle power with the manual solidified GW relocating device, or needing to create a meaningful relationship with my antique John Deere at some ungodly hour in the early AM before sane people are up..

215 posted on 01/02/2014 8:24:36 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

” before sane people are up..”

That settles it, I’m up.
Great.


216 posted on 01/02/2014 9:06:44 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: ColdOne

That is cute little bird.
Bandit stripe and baby bib, plus no doubt a sweet song.
Don’t worry about wrong posting...I UT style replied on a serious thread two days ago, it was insane enough to be ignored, luckily.


217 posted on 01/02/2014 11:21:48 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. " 2013: Mind the door handle on the way out!")
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To: Silentgypsy

“varnish”

Come on...there is no way you can pick up my southern accent from wrtten text. XD.


218 posted on 01/02/2014 11:34:55 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. " 2013: Mind the door handle on the way out!")
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FRee Republic Weather service for Friday 3rd January 2014.





219 posted on 01/02/2014 11:42:43 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. " 2013: Mind the door handle on the way out!")
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To: usurper

“...Maria mows your lawn in her teddy.”

I’m listening...and mentally thumbing through my catalog of stuff for the last known whereabouts of my lawn chair...

So, tell us more about “Maria.”


220 posted on 01/03/2014 12:31:31 AM PST by HKMk23 (ditditdit dahdahdah ditditdit)
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