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.”

[Slip18]

Darks, Cyber sent those three photos from the same day of FTI Unit right above. See, I told you he was a shape shifter.

[no-to-illegals]

Afternoon T-c and everyone! The only thing we have to fear, have angst and doubt of is more white flakes ... dandruff! Suds rids the head of fud!

[Darksheare]

No tail.
She tries to wag her stub.
(Tiny little stub, less than one inch.)
She acts like a dog at times.

She is referred to as Bobby White.

[Darksheare]

Obviously he used the cat ability of increasing mass to thwart removal when he got in the sink.

[Tax-chick]

It doesn’t look like we will have any white flakes here.

[Tax-chick]

Maybe your mom likes the trading practices CNBC does

Beats me. I almost never watch television, so I don't know what would appeal to me if I did.

[no-to-illegals]

Hope not ... I’m out of shampoo.

[Tax-chick]

You can just use hot water.

It’s almost naptime here.

[no-to-illegals]

Me's head could probably use a good scalding.
May the little ones sleep well. Gosh, I miss naptime.

[Tax-chick]

I miss naptime way too often, but today I intend to hit it.

[no-to-illegals]

May your dreams be pleasant and not in the shower with cold water and suds!

[Dead Corpse]

Aim small, miss small...

[null and void]

The mechanic asked how many miles were on the truck. Cyber told him 31,000 miles. The mechanic did not believe him and checked it himself. That truck has been to Washington, DC, and back and to So. Cal. and back about five times.

Did you mean 310,000 miles?

[Monkey Face]

Sure! That would be great! Thanks!

[Monkey Face]

I’m back from my last errand of the day.

The kid at the Rebel station chipped in .50 so I could get $11 worth of gas (LOL!) and the next stop was the PO. The Magazine Bunneh is on his way, flat rate priority so you should have the stuff by Friday. :o])

And I finally lost my head at Walmart...I bought a package of Oreos and a quart of milk... unnnngh!

[Cyber Liberty]

He's "pan-dimensional," like the mice in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Darksheare]

I’m told he celebrated your birthday by tearing through the house at warp speed.
Wonder what that was all about, besides a distraction?

[Cyber Liberty]

LOL. Nope. 30,750 to be exact. And the Explorer is a 2005. My Escape is a 2009 and has about 12,000 on it.

We’re homebodies.

[Cyber Liberty]

I have no idea what that was all about. He cheerfully accepted many pets in the kitchen sink (one of his favorite places)

Then "Bam!" Off he went on this tear through the house....

[Darksheare]

Maybe the sink is his portal of communication with his home dimension?