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.”

[Dead Corpse]

Still not cat related, but funnier in kind of a juvenile way...

[Tax-chick]

Weird ears on that dog.

[Monkey Face]

That dog just SCREAMS, “I did it! DUH!”

LOL!

[Monkey Face]

I’ve tried sleeping in a box = claustrophobia!

[Monkey Face]

I had a pug whose gas was so powerful that when he smelled it (he had to look to see where the sound was coming from) he would get up and move away...with his tail down. SOOOO funny!

[NicknamedBob]

I’m saving that for later. Much later.

[Dead Corpse]

Aha! Found a cat related one... One moment please...

[Dead Corpse]

My German Sheppard was like that. Even teh cats looked at him in disgust.

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[moose07]

A note:
If you are having trouble with your mobile broadband take a trip to a nearby city.
My receiver is fine, never has FR been so fast.
Now off home to deal with some liars.

“Where are the Carriers...lol”

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They aren’t likely to be any odder than when Darkchylde wanders through Darksheare’s dreams.

[null and void]

Sleeping in a box is the way to go!

It's how I plan on spending eternity...

[Monkey Face]

And we all know some cats need to be informed!

[Darksheare]

Ya got that wrong.
I wander through the dreams of others.
Dreams are doorways.

[Darksheare]

http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=298

http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1447

[Monkey Face]

You were on the train this morning. The caboose was actually a duplex house, with one side of it old and run down, and extending beyond the tracks by 30 feet. You were in the bar car, telling people who they could associate with.

I woke up to find that the train that didn’t go through here yesterday, was wending it’s way south this morning, and was a LONG one...the chemical plant to the north evidently had a big load of something to send off.

But my question to you is this: If you were in charge of the train, as you said you were, why were you in jeans and a T-shirt?

[Darksheare]

Casual day.

[Monkey Face]

That’s tomorrow! LOL!

*hug* (Just because.)

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[NicknamedBob]

I wonder if James Garfield liked lasagna.