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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...

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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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To: ColdOne

Oh, what fun! They say it may be 39 later. The snow has mostly melted where it’s sunny, but not in the shade.


2,501 posted on 01/30/2014 10:02:29 AM PST by Tax-chick (... for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead ...)
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To: Monkey Face
Have I said anything lately about wanting summer?

>:^(

2,502 posted on 01/30/2014 10:06:28 AM 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: ColdOne
Had a few more inches come through this AM here as well.

Snowblower is getting a work out this year.

12 degrees now. Heading for 18. Overnight low is supposed to be -22 with a high of 4 on Fridrak.

On that note...

Back to work...

2,503 posted on 01/30/2014 10:18:20 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Oh. My. Stars. *shudder*

I’m not glad you’re in that, but I’m REALLY glad I’m NOT! LOL!


2,504 posted on 01/30/2014 10:24:38 AM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

You will be sorry when I show up at your door, begging for the warmth of the Valley of the Sun!


2,505 posted on 01/30/2014 10:25:15 AM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: Monkey Face

Um... That was a shot out my windshield on my way in this AM. Check the speedo... I’m on a freeway. :-)


2,506 posted on 01/30/2014 10:31:50 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Monkey Face

Oh yes, you’ll love the 115F worth of warmth. I do.


2,507 posted on 01/30/2014 10:40:51 AM 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: Dead Corpse

I’m like Sammy Hagar. I can’t drive 55.


2,508 posted on 01/30/2014 10:43:37 AM 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: Dead Corpse

I figured you did it this morning. It looks like 55 mph ~~ on the freeway??? Must be winter! LOL!


2,509 posted on 01/30/2014 10:45:39 AM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: Cyber Liberty; LibreOuMort

You KNOW I’m like a lizard on a rock in the summer...

I want to come to AZ and spend about a week, as I have folks to visit from Sahuarita to the White Mountains...

I figure a night or two with each should take care of it for the next year or two. If I can gather enough of them in the Phoenix area into the same back yard, I can visit without too much driving. But I’ve got family in Tucson and Sahuarita, as well as our mutual FRiend in the White Mountains, so I figure if I can get the truck serviced, and get the radio working, I can make the trip before April.

(Hope springs eternal...)


2,510 posted on 01/30/2014 10:50:35 AM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I’m like Sammy Hagar. I can’t drive 55.

Which is exactly why I have a four-cylinder vehicle! Any more and my foot tries to go through the carburetor! (Fuel injectors?)

2,511 posted on 01/30/2014 10:52:36 AM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

You can when it’s right in front of the cop shop and the kick-up to 65 is still a half mile down the road...


2,512 posted on 01/30/2014 11:18:58 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Monkey Face

A little paranoia is a good thing. That stretch of road houses the local PD. I think the State Troopers maintain an office there too...


2,513 posted on 01/30/2014 11:19:43 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Good point. That is the best place to be on your best behavior.


2,514 posted on 01/30/2014 11:23:40 AM 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: Dead Corpse

Ah. That explains it. LOL!

I’d be paranoid but other people would be trying to hunt me down for it...


2,515 posted on 01/30/2014 11:24:28 AM PST by Monkey Face (Getting old sucks. I used to wake up feeling like a million bucks. Now I feel like a bounced check.)
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To: Dead Corpse

that was a great post!!!!!


2,516 posted on 01/30/2014 11:30:00 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: ColdOne
Guess what I am going to do in the next hour?

Enjoying the beauty of nature?

Appreciating glow bull warmthing?

Cross-country skiing?

Coming to borrow my old Deere? (Maybe you can convince it to start... ;-)

Saying the heck with it and having another cup of coffee if you can get the coffee maxhine to work?

2,517 posted on 01/30/2014 11:43:06 AM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: ColdOne
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. :-)


2,518 posted on 01/30/2014 11:44:27 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I would have rather said...what the heck and had another cup of coffee instead of shoveling that snow.


2,519 posted on 01/30/2014 11:51:03 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: ColdOne

I took a nap. Not a very good nap, but better than nothing.


2,520 posted on 01/30/2014 11:55:23 AM PST by Tax-chick (... for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead ...)
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