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.”

[Silentgypsy]

Poking your nannites? Ouch.

[Silentgypsy]

It wouldn’t let me just post my tagline.

[Silentgypsy]

Croquettes.

[NicknamedBob]

"It wouldn’t let me just post my tagline."

You have to have something in the field. Sometimes, when I come up with what I think is a clever line, I use that as a new tagline.

But "cut and paste" doesn't always work too well. That's how you get strange characters (not specifically referring to myself here).

And there's a limit to how many letters you can use. My cleverness often has to be severely constrained in order to fit in a tagl

[Tax-chick]

I dreamed Anoreth joined a religious order.

[Tax-chick]

[moose07]

[moose07]

Managed to put the entire posting in the ‘to’ box...
the server raised a Californian eyebrow and cleaned up the mess, awesome!

[moose07]

LOl, morning TC,
Snakes come in tubes, so why not Dogs in boxes...

[Tax-chick]

Morning. Dogs have to get to your house some way. Dragons come in a little dish, like fishing worms.

[NicknamedBob]

"Dogs have to get to your house some way. Dragons come in a little dish, like fishing worms."

I have heard that people come in doors.

Darksheare may find this information useful.

[moose07]

I have heard that people come in doors.

*Rimshot*!

[Tax-chick]

Hey, I got that!

[NicknamedBob]

It occurred to me as I was visualizing it that they sorta go that way too.

The “exit door” is just placed horizontally.

[Darksheare]

Doors?

How does one go fishing for dragons?
Tie some hapless yap to a balloon and cast him into the sky?

[NicknamedBob]

I haven’t seen that part of the movie yet. The last one ended in a mood of desolation.

Sounds like your meat.

[Anton.Rutter]

No decent new YT movies popping up yet but here's a fun 1988 recommend High Spirits with the late Peter O'Toole and a young Daryl Hannah. An impoverished Peter O'Toole has to save his castle by advertising it as haunted, and lo and behold... ;)

[Monkey Face]

Labrynth is still one of my favorite Muppets movies. In fact, I wore out the VHS tape and have since gone to DVD, though it has been a long time since I watched it, now.

[Monkey Face]

I dreamed Anoreth joined a religious order.

That would have been a nightmare for the order...she would have them all armed and going to the range several times a day, before and/or after Vespers... ;o]

[Darksheare]

Twice for Vespers.