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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 Senates 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. Its fluid, which is how we want it to be.
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To: NoCmpromiz; Tax-chick; Darksheare
My books are pretty innocuous, although I suspect them of doing a little rustling during the night.
Louis L’Amour would be appalled, I’m sure.
2,761
posted on
02/02/2014 6:29:17 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
To: NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob; Tax-chick
“Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!”
I’m pretty certain it was a popup ad!
2,762
posted on
02/02/2014 6:46:33 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare
Send Timmy as a respondent. He has experience.
2,763
posted on
02/02/2014 9:02:52 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
To: NicknamedBob
Oh great.
Do we have room for one hundred “amorphological gelatinous mobility enhancers”?
At least, that is what the translation doohickey is saying the response was.
2,764
posted on
02/02/2014 9:57:43 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare; NicknamedBob
gelatinous mobility enhancersUmm..
If your Jello is mobile, you don't want it enhanced, you want it nuked before it mates with lower life forms, like, say, liberals...
2,765
posted on
02/02/2014 10:29:21 PM PST
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob
“Tekeli-li?”
The jello is asking a question and I do not understand it.
2,766
posted on
02/02/2014 11:27:12 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare; NicknamedBob
The jello is asking a question and I do not understand it.You forgot your Green Jello Magic Decoder Ring again, didn't you?
2,767
posted on
02/02/2014 11:31:53 PM PST
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: NoCmpromiz; fanfan; ColdOne; Cyber Liberty; null and void; Tax-chick; Anoreth; Monkey Face; ...
2,768
posted on
02/03/2014 2:51:43 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(... for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead ...)
To: NoCmpromiz
2,769
posted on
02/03/2014 3:17:19 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
2,770
posted on
02/03/2014 4:15:59 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
To: NicknamedBob
2,771
posted on
02/03/2014 4:22:47 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: Darksheare
Is this your quote?:
Juha Untinen, The Awakening (song) in Deep Beneath
But now beneath the hunter's moon,
their unleashing all but soon,
Bright blue lighting fire up in room,
their legions are ready to bring your doom.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
2,772
posted on
02/03/2014 4:38:17 AM PST
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
To: JoeProBono
Notice he is giving the interstellar symbol of “live long and wriggle”?
2,773
posted on
02/03/2014 4:50:54 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
(My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl)
To: Tax-chick
2,774
posted on
02/03/2014 4:56:14 AM PST
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
That cat and I share the same opinion of exercise.
2,775
posted on
02/03/2014 5:15:37 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(... for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead ...)
To: Tax-chick
2,776
posted on
02/03/2014 5:32:21 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
That’s pretty much how I feel first thing in the morning.
2,777
posted on
02/03/2014 6:52:03 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: NicknamedBob
looked in the mirror, something terrible had happened to me. Me too Bob. I became desperate. Instead of shooting TV's I took to shooting mirrors. Desperate to never again see my reflection. Better Half hides her mirror, afraid I'll shoot that dang mirror. She still looks Great.
My mission, in life, has become to purge the world of mirrors. I can't do anything about ugly.
2,778
posted on
02/03/2014 7:23:07 AM PST
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: no-to-illegals; null and void
2,779
posted on
02/03/2014 7:32:19 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(... for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead ...)
To: Tax-chick
2,780
posted on
02/03/2014 7:41:38 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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