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.”

[NicknamedBob]

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.

[Darksheare]

“Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!”

I’m pretty certain it was a popup ad!

[NicknamedBob]

Send Timmy as a respondent. He has experience.

[Darksheare]

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.

[NoCmpromiz]

gelatinous mobility enhancers

Umm..

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...

[Darksheare]

“Tekeli-li?”
The jello is asking a question and I do not understand it.

[NoCmpromiz]

The jello is asking a question and I do not understand it.

You forgot your Green Jello Magic Decoder Ring again, didn't you?

[Tax-chick]

[JoeProBono]

[NicknamedBob]

Isn’t that “Bob”?

[JoeProBono]

[moose07]

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.

[NicknamedBob]

Notice he is giving the interstellar symbol of “live long and wriggle”?

[JoeProBono]

[Tax-chick]

That cat and I share the same opinion of exercise.

[JoeProBono]

[null and void]

That’s pretty much how I feel first thing in the morning.

[no-to-illegals]

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.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning, gentlemen.

[null and void]

*grumble*