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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Recalibrated and am also certain is not nsa. nsa has been too busy lately to come around.
Am breaking contact with anomaly. Still looks friendly. Am going to go hide for a while.
This is *Chicken* signing off.
Bob, the *Chicken* code worked again ... It was Israel. Them Israelis are such kidders! Have fun everyone. Thought is in Poland.
NO.
Thankfully.
Not often I can provoke a *twitch* out of you...
Yeah.
The involuntary facial tic from that is rather sudden and disconcerting.
Darksheare: The unflappable enemy of appliances and big bunnehs...Your mission, should you wish to fulfill it, is to remain clam no matter how provoked you become by outside forces. Including Staple Gril of 19...whatever and Nully.
;o])
Miss Staplegun 1993, a bad date.
Real bad date.
Kinda hard not to jump at first upon mention.
Worst part of it was that she really was rather good looking.
:-/
You just described the entire (almost) female population of Port Jervis, NY.
Describes the male population also in case anyone thought there was any redeeming social value at that location...
Huh?
Whaddid I miss???
Moose: I have a question for you: What is the emergency phone number for GB and when was it instituted?
The second part of the question doesn’t have to be exact...just a generality. When you answer, I’ll tell you why I asked.
Some of the darker streets in Las Vegas have those very same female populations...and male as well...scary...
999
30 june 1937
Thanks. The reason I asked is because I’m reading a novel that takes place in London during WWII and the principle character is a “detective constable?” and he and other characters dial 999 for emergency assistance.
US of A didn’t get 911 until after Canada had gotten 999, but I think both went to 911 in 1967.
How progressive is GB, to think of that??? *applause*
When nti is involved, I miss about half of it.
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