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Lamar Smith: Freedom Hater
Posted: January 18, 2012 at 3:00 pm By annie-roseRep. Lamar Smith, famed anti-immigrant zealot, is behind SOPA, and it’s really no surprise. He’s built a reputation solely on the idea of going out of his way to limit people’s personal freedoms and stick his nose where it doesn’t belong.
Don’t Leave Immigration Out of the Debt Debate
Posted: August 4, 2011 at 4:15 pm By NicoleOriginally posted on the Change Nation blog
Last week, we watched as Republicans and Democrats signed a disastrous debt deal to “save” our nation’s economy.
The deal, led by The Gangs of Washington, cuts funding for education and Medicare and essentially bankrupts the middle class. Furthermore, Congress must come back again by September 30th to propose more [...]
Tough talk on immigration comes with huge credit card bill
Posted: March 17, 2011 at 3:58 pm By adminFrom Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, appearing in The Hill:
Our national failure to fix the broken immigration system has led to record and wasteful government spending on immigration enforcement. Billions of dollars could be saved if Congress terminated wasteful or duplicative programs and refocused our enforcement priorities on real threats. [...]
Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home
Posted: March 9, 2011 at 5:06 pm By LloydWe’ve long argued that immigration reform is key to economic growth in America, and the cost of our current immigration policies are unsustainable.
Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News recently visited Silicon Valley, CA and examined the impact on our economy:
At a time when our economy is stagnating, some American political leaders are working to [...]
The high cost of restrictionist rhetoric
Posted: January 31, 2011 at 12:37 pm By LloydDuring the mid term election campaign season many Tea Party Republicans ran on the platform of cutting spending drastically. Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and others who supposedly championed lower spending by the government are finding their immigration positions and fiscal proclamations at serious odds.
The high cost of these [...]
5 Billion Dollars
Posted: January 27, 2011 at 3:58 pm By Rachel LaBruyereThat’s how much money our government spent on arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants last year. While Congress gives never-ending lip service to fixing the economy, the cost of enforcement without reform continues to accumulate.
A high-level immigration official says it costs $12,500 to arrest, detain and deport each person removed from the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]
Republicans look backward
Posted: January 27, 2011 at 11:45 am By LloydEager to appear to be doing anything to work on the economy, Republicans are returning to an old tactic — worksite raids.
Republican lawmakers called on the Obama administration to return to the era of workplace raids to arrest illegal employees, an approach that contrasts sharply with the president’s continued push to create a path to [...]
The opportunity is being squandered
Posted: September 8, 2010 at 4:46 pm By LloydBy all objective measures unauthorized immigration is down. Another burst of federal money was just sent to the Southwest for border security. Violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is at its lowest in years (despite what some fear-mongers on the right have claimed). These are the conditions that the Right has demanded before talking comprehensive reform.
Well, [...]
Driving home our point: Immigrants boost the economy
Posted: September 1, 2010 at 1:38 pm By Rachel LaBruyereWe’ve been saying for months that immigration is an overall net-positive for our recovering economy. With unemployment at a scary high and our economy still limping slowly towards recovery, many have repeated history by scapegoating immigrants as “taking our jobs” and have pointed fingers at the undocumented immigrant population as somehow responsible for the current [...]
In case you missed them..
Posted: August 27, 2010 at 9:45 am By LloydOver at the Washington Post, Suzy Khimm has been blogging for Ezra Klein all week and has posted some great immigration-related stuff.
Suzy tackles the immigration court backlog and its effects here, discusses Canada and Australia’s rightward shift on immigration, slams Obama for the increase in workplace audits, and talks E-Verify.
Make sure to check them out.
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