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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That’s mean.
Grilled salmon, with butter...
Been having a hankering for that for months.
What art thou barbecuing to make this aroma?
Three spoons sugar, steep for ten minutes.
That’s how I drink my Constant Comment.
Earl Grey steeps for three, otherwise it tastes like soap for some reason.
I absolutely love salmon. I have a smoker to smoke it, too.
Cyber will have a steak, and I’ll have either salmon or halibut. The halibut scares me a little because I know what it looks like freshly caught. One eye sticking up staring at you. Yikes!
I wish I WERE BBQ-ing something... I would, however, BBQ RI-UBS and maybe throw in some teriyaki steak and chicken, but if you came here for a BBQ, you would NOT regret it! (Mi casa es su casa!)
And I would LOVE to have you here! (Please come!)
I prefer the texture of the salmon.
Halibut, I’ll eat it but the texture is off a little.
Just so long as nobody throws lemon on it, I’m happy.
(Slippy, I don’t do seafood, even though I lived on an island the first five years of my life, and I was married to a sailor...)
I’m a CARNIVORE!
Love Earl Grey and green tea, also. I absolutely love the aroma of coffee, but I can’t drink it. Drank so much of it when I was working that it ruined my tummy. That’s why I make Cyber coffee in the morning, just for the aroma.
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Buy the river.
I know about your FReeper name, but if you spend all your time on the big muddy, folks will begin to call you Mrs. Slippy.
Welcome aboard the Flying Castle. It's good to see you posting again.
I prefer the oceanfare that don’t have backbones....
I don’t like lemon on any seafood. Ruins the flavour (that was for Moose07).
Drats.
That rots.
(You and I need to get together and compare notes. I think we both have a lot to learn from each other!)
Would that be lobster, Baby? I don’t like lobster. Give me King Crab instead.
The Alaskan King Crab has been fished out. Norway has all of them now. They are a nuisance. Norway is sending Alaska baby King Crab.
Wholeheartedly agreed.
Lemon ruins fish.
Lemon is used as a masking agent to hide a poor cook in my area.
And often you can smell the lemon on it before they get the plate close.
Squid, octopus, shrimp, clam, lobster, and crab.
Yum.
That’s exactly what coffee did to my stomach. I had to quit drinking it. My stomach was rotting. Maybe I could rot my teeth by chewing coffee beans. Heard that was getting popular. LOL!
We really wanted you to come down for Christmas, but the truth is, I was pretty laid up with the shoulder.
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