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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Roadkill cleanup requested over here.
Why border integrity is a national right unless you are an American, when it becomes a hate crime.
9 out of 10 Mexican cartel hitmen prefer Obamagration brand immigration!
Brian Woodward is a moron.
I don’t think leftists believe anything they say, they just think destroying everything somehow leads to Utopia.
” The strongest case is the economic one”
That’s why the dems insist it is an emergency that we must extend unemployment benefits for another 99 weeks!
The economy is SO great, that we don’t “need” to do that, right?
The premise is false.
Enforce our borders, enforce immigration laws, stop spitting in the faces of those who came here legally and naturalized.
please. That waiting period will be thrown out by the first judge to see it, most of us here would throw it out because it is stupid law.
They are foreign criminal invaders and should be treated as an invading army would be treated.
The undead shall feast like kings!
Think tanks and Harvard and politicians are the last people to ask about real life.
“A lot of people think” is likely much more accurate
The ones who come here are the ones who could not hack it in their own country, they are the 3rd world dregs
Come on, jump on the team and come on in for the big win. Be the first on your block to sport a shinny new guest worker. All your neighbors will be so jealous as you sit on your lawn chair drinking beer as Maria mows your lawn in her teddy.
As the article states its good for the economy, in fact just like cash for clunkers we need to subsidize their importation. No American should ever have to do the work that American consider demeaning. Mexicans don't care they love crappy jobs that pay nothing.
Think about it its way better than the old Democrat Party slavery economic model:
No Initial capital outlay
No transportation costs
No housing costs
No medical costs
No replacement costs
No food costs
Just use them tell they ware out and get a new one for free! The tax payers cover all the expensive including removal. I don't know about you but I think the Dems & Repubs have really hit on something here. Slavery was such a burden to the owners in the past. Now we have an affordable alternative.
ORDER YOURS NOW BEFORE JANUARY FIRST AND WE WILL THROW IN A GPS TRACKER FOR YOUR GUEST WORKER.
Now you must turn that into a sarcastic fake infomercial that must be posted to the pro-amnesty types.
Illegal Alien Amnesty is Anti American Bigotry
They are not immigrants...and all need to be deported
Your idea is Amnesty
All illegal aliens deported...no exceptions
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark. Well said.
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