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Dispelling Myths: The Case for Immigration Reform [Enjoy your made-in-America ZOT, troll]
Red Dirt Report ^ | 12/27/2013 | Brian Woodward

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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To: Old Sarge; honestabe010; politicallyhomeless2434; TheOldLady
The trolls are coming in all flavors, it seems.

NO problemo...I see the kittehs have it covered ;-)


61 posted on 12/27/2013 3:12:38 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: politicallyhomeless2434
Do I dare point out that all of these so-called 'undocumenteds' are not even all Mexican or so-called latinos? This amnesty would include sharia-loving, jihadi-practicing muslims who ALSO number in the millions and we have no clue how many, who, or where they are.

Both la raza unida, (MechA,) and every muslim charity and association preaches hate against the USA and have no business bring here.

Stick amnesty in both your ears and let them blow YOUR brains out snd rape YOUR daughters. WE have had enough of both creeping sharia and creepy 'latinos', who are nothing more that spanish speaking palestinians. As a 'people' they don't exist except to usurp our land and our culture for their own.

62 posted on 12/27/2013 3:13:50 PM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Old Sarge

It had a smell. Now it is only ozone left in the air. Zip, zero, nada. Only post has been removed. Good sniffer you got for the trolls.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=politicallyhomeless2434


63 posted on 12/27/2013 3:24:15 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Monkey Face

Not time yet.


65 posted on 12/27/2013 4:20:34 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Regulator

I could not have said it any better,you were spot on!


66 posted on 12/27/2013 4:24:23 PM PST by Drayah
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To: honestabe010

No, thank you.


67 posted on 12/27/2013 4:25:48 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: honestabe010

The unemployment rate in Mexico is half the US rate.


68 posted on 12/27/2013 4:27:07 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
The unemployment rate in Mexico is half the US rate.

Stands to reason. Half of Mexico's unemployed have come to the U.S., and have displaced formerly employed Americans.

69 posted on 12/27/2013 4:44:07 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: honestabe010

what does ZOT mean? I mean I get the general jist of it that it has to do with a troll, I’m new and just wondered.


70 posted on 12/27/2013 5:18:22 PM PST by secretsexposed89
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To: secretsexposed89; honestabe010; politicallyhomeless2434; Old Sarge; TheOldLady

Oh, hello.
How many handles?


71 posted on 12/27/2013 5:29:45 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: honestabe010; TheOldLady; KC_Lion; F15Eagle; Hardraade; MestaMachine; Zionist Conspirator; 50mm; ...
From: The Free Republic (FR) ZOT Investigation Office.

To: The poster self-identifying as honestabe010.

Subject: ButtHurt Form.

Dear: Mr./Mrs./Ms./Homosexual/Metrosexual/Bisexual/Lesbian/Transsexual/Cross-Dresser/Switch-Hitter/Ambiguous/It

Please use this ButtHurt Form to help all of FR to understand why you got Zotted from the Premier Conservative Forum on the Internet.

To ensure our records are as complete as possible, please annotate, in your own words, exactly why honestabe001 through honestabe009 are more honest than you are.

If you wish, you may also attach an addendum to the ButtHurt form to explain in more detail the crisis you are having in getting cheap illegal immigrant labor for your gardening, home construction and business activities. This may mitigate your overall TROLL point designation at FR.

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72 posted on 12/27/2013 5:54:28 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: honestabe010; 230FMJ; 50mm; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; AliVeritas; Allegra; ...
Got zot?

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.

73 posted on 12/27/2013 6:36:14 PM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: honestabe010

So, before you got a ride on the lightning what was the point of your post?

IATZ


74 posted on 12/27/2013 6:42:28 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Admin Moderator

LOL!


75 posted on 12/27/2013 6:47:14 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: MestaMachine

Oooooo.
Ahhhhh.
Neat.
Pretty!


76 posted on 12/27/2013 7:41:26 PM PST by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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To: secretsexposed89; Darksheare; Arrowhead1952; TheOldLady; Admin Moderator

How many screen names is OFA paying you to use?


77 posted on 12/27/2013 7:44:04 PM PST by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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To: Arrowhead1952; Old Sarge; politicallyhomeless2434; Admin Moderator; Alaska Wolf
Been a while since there have been two zots on one thread.

Yes... I think the last time it happened, maybe a tad over a month ago, it was the same guy - Alaska Wolf - that got zotted twice - on the same thread...

78 posted on 12/27/2013 7:47:53 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: secretsexposed89
what does ZOT mean? I mean I get the general jist of it that it has to do with a troll, I’m new and just wondered.

Please do post more. We'd like to get to know you...

79 posted on 12/27/2013 7:54:37 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Darksheare

Moving the Flying Castle here in January? Pretty cozy little thread we’d have here...

Now, where’s my dang Kerblacht?


80 posted on 12/27/2013 7:55:09 PM PST by TheOldLady
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