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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When everyone turns to see, I still do not know.
Guess, it is ... What do you see?
You mean: getting plagued by people inside the building not bothering to do their jobs, after all they can always blame security?
Colonel Sanders, by the hedgerow, with secret spices.
Well, if you really want too. But I don't need it. Maybe you should keep it and can use it to scare the black ice away that we're scheduled to receive tonight..
Wait a minute - that's racist.. Why is ice black?
We need multicultural environmentally sensitive ice. Contact your congress-critters and insist they correct this egregious discrimination..
Never mind. I'm going back to my lab.
Scene of mad scientist in multi-but-non-rainbow-colored-so-as-not-to-offend lab coat walking down long darkened hall away from camera..
and there were no Hedgerows.
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You could always offer them coffee...
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Not Meth, I trust?
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Can you imagine the results?
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I’ll explain but know I’m being used ...
Time is time lets each of know. Mushrooms? I pray not!!!
and the time tick ... toc. And all ask ... What does it mean? I’ll give a clue. Soon. If a clue develops. Pray for no clue.
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