Dispelling Myths: The Case for Immigration Reform [Enjoy your made-in-America ZOT, troll]

Red Dirt Report ^ | 12/27/2013 | Brian Woodward

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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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[no-to-illegals]

A fifth of wine and no care.

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Playing songs ... and he was useless.

[no-to-illegals]

Playing songs ... ain’t hiding from nobody and nobody hiding from me. Of course, nobody believes me! Is okay!

[no-to-illegals]

Flees, and I am right at home!

[Darksheare]

If any of them know what I babble on about, it would be appreciated if they clued me in.
Of course, then they would be trapped.
Stuck in my reality with no hope of escape!
Armed with only a fondue fork, a scrap of paper with 3-8-4 written on it, and a bizarre key.
Oh, that’s a text adventure.

[no-to-illegals]

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Monkey on our back?

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I did see a Raccoon today. It sometimes depend on the song one want to hear today.

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missed SS

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Heard, Loud and Clear ... Wooly.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning!

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[Darksheare]

Hyoomon!
Y u no warms outsides?!

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Morning Fellow Earthlings.
Sun, check.
Wind from south, check.
Warm, check.
Stuck at Work, check.

Lunch is on the horizon, running for its life.

[Tax-chick]

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[Darksheare]

I had to chip my car out of a layer of frost that was unholy.
Then there were idiots ignoring the icy conditions.
Just genius!

[Darksheare]

There is no escape for lunch.
Release the sabersawdog!
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