Illegal immigration is not a problem.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

fuck you wetback son of a bitch, i'll take on any board liberal just name the time and place, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PUSSIES GONNA DO

I'll meet you at 35 and Gold Canyon in 2 hours. See you there.

[mavs>spurs]

[youtube]B4GvuoG8h3Y[\youtube]

retarded be@ner shit can't even embed a video

[mavs>spurs]

I'll meet you at 35 and Gold Canyon in 2 hours. See you there.

Dallas is a lot further from SA than 2 hours and you know it, you pussy liberal coward NOBODY can step to me..NOBODY i'll stomp out ANY board liberal/wetback apologist and that's on 44 oakland blood you ol bitch ass nigga

[Borat Sagyidev]

retarded be@ner shit can't even embed a video

retarded ****** shit? Do you just randomly assume the background of a person and rant sentence fragments in real life?


keep it real, cool angry dude.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c336/caseypropes/wigger.jpg

[Stringer_Bell]

Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid by average, able-bodied citizens...and how that abuse makes it impossible for the working poor to qualify for any aid or get any temporary relief. Good, hard-working, God-fearing American families go without so liars and cheats can stay at home and make more babies while government funded daycare (aka the public school system) takes care of their other kids.

[Borat Sagyidev]

Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid by average, able-bodied citizens...and how that abuse makes it impossible for the working poor to qualify for any aid or get any temporary relief. Good, hard-working, God-fearing American families go without so liars and cheats can stay at home and make more babies while government funded daycare (aka the public school system) takes care of their other kids.

try harder. That is not the end of the money trail and some people or hording it.
I´ll name a few fucking the country over and slave waging it
Charles Butt
Bob Perry

[Wild Cobra]

Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid by average, able-bodied citizens...and how that abuse makes it impossible for the working poor to qualify for any aid or get any temporary relief. Good, hard-working, God-fearing American families go without so liars and cheats can stay at home and make more babies while government funded daycare (aka the public school system) takes care of their other kids.
Illegal immigration helps enable this. If we had less unwilling illegal immigrants to work for minimum wages, employers would have to raise wages enough to attract willing workers. The government can also reduce or deny benefits to those they refer to work, who do not.

[Borat Sagyidev]

Illegal immigration helps enable this. If we had less unwilling illegal immigrants to work for minimum wages, employers would have to raise wages enough to attract willing workers. The government can also reduce or deny benefits to those they refer to work, who do not.

400 years of either slavery, sharecropping and illegal employment and you expect these certain jobs to get a pay raise?
Do you honestly believe that employers involved in this activity will out of just strong moral character raise their salaries? or fight tooth and nail for the cheapest deal they can find, even if that means moving offshore?

Fuck it, don´t answer. I already know it will be 100% garbage. The average conservative thinks things through as much as rock.

[Nbadan]

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/imgs/2013/130220-fractious-john-mccain-townhall-shows-why-gop-is-doomed.jpg

[Winehole23]

It’s an iPad and smartphone world. Yet we’re stuck with an immigration system formed in the age of black-and-white TVs.


Whereas the success of yesterday’s Fortune 500 companies — like U.S. Steel and Amoco — once depended on resources, today’s Fortune 500 companies — like Google and eBay — depend on access to talent. Even so, there’s been no substantive reform of our immigration laws for nearly 50 years. It’s now more difficult than ever for foreign-born workers to come, contribute, and thrive in the United States.


For the time being, America remains the destination of choice in the global economy. But talented individuals can now also find very attractive opportunities in other countries around the world. China for example offers generous stipends, access to incubators, and other incentives to lure home top scientists and engineers.


Meanwhile, we train many of the world’s leading innovators in our universities — only to send them packing once they graduate. We’re sending them away to compete against us, even as we face a massive shortage of more than 230,000 advanced degree workers in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.


It’s simple: The more skilled labor we have in America, the more innovation we have, the better our economy performs, and the more jobs we create for all Americans. Here are the facts:




Every 100 immigrants who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. and then stay to work in STEM fields create 262 jobs for American workers.
More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.
More than three-fourths of all patents at the top 10 U.S. patent-producing universities (including Caltech, MIT, and Stanford) in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor.

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/technology-has-changed-but-immigration-hasnt/

[boutons_deux]

"Illegal immigration is not what hurts this country, the problem is the abuse of government aid"

got any "non-partisan" numbers?

How would those numbers compare with $Ts the Fed is lending at 0% to the fiaance sector?

how many $Ts in profits mega-corps make and pay almost no taxes?

how about the for-profit sick-care providers over charging the country about $1T/year to keep us sick and taking their overprice BigPharma drugs?

Seems like you only want to fuck the poor, while letting the 1%/UCA get by with no/low taxes, job destruction, war on employees, and wealth-sucking.

[boutons_deux]

How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System

Thirty years ago in January, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), now the biggest operator of private prisons in the world, opened its first prison, a federal immigrant detention center in Houston, Texas.

Three years after the company’s first contract in 1983, according to Southern Changes magazine, the company spent some $100,000 (http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc08-3_011) lobbying the state of Tennessee to secure a correctional facility privatization bill, which helped propel the business to financial success. Last year, the company brought in $1.7 billion in revenues, about a quarter of which came from contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate non-citizens in the United States.
 
For a company that began and later thrived by imprisoning immigrants, the federal immigration policy overhaul expected this year presents both opportunities and challenges. -

In recognition of the profits at stake, the prison companies have invested in key legislators leading the reform process—although the companies are coy about their purpose, denying that they are attempting to influence Congress’s deliberations.

Their lobbying efforts are nothing new. CCA and other large private prison companies have forged ties with political insiders by spending huge sums on lobbying firms, campaign contributions and grants to friendly think tanks. An analysis (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/private-prison-companies-making-big-bucks-locking-undocumented-immigrants-article-1.1127465?print) by the Associated Press last year found that the three major private prison corporations—CCA, the Geo Group, the industry’s largest two companies, along with a smaller company, the Utah-based Management and Training Corporation—spent roughly $45 million over the past decade to influence state and federal government.

The money spent on influencing lawmakers has coincided with a sharp increase in immigrant detention and deportation. Immigrant detention costs taxpayers about $2 billion (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/private-prison-companies-making-big-bucks-locking-undocumented-immigrants-article-1.1127465?print) a year, and private prisons are increasingly tapped by the federal government to house the over 400,000 (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12/10/secret-prisoners-insensitivity-and-little-public-accountability-lead-misery-immigration-detention/AZ3wnUXvtmUaGDybDHYG5J/story.html) undocumented immigrants detained annually, a number that has more than doubled over the last decade. In 2012 alone, the two publicly traded prison companies, CCA and Geo Group, took in over $441.9 million in federal contracts to house so-called “criminal aliens” for the federal Bureau of Prisons. That year, the two companies combined netted $296.9 million in revenues from ICE contracts. These figures could grow or shrink depending on the details of the immigration reform overhaul debated in the coming months.
As immigration talks began formally in January with the so-called “Gang of Eight” negotiations in the Senate, legislators close to the industry were quick to promote policies that are in line with what critics call “the business of detention.”

Texas Senator John Cornyn, the number-two (http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/breaking-sen-john-cornyn-becomes-gop-whip-the-partys-no-2-senate-slot.html/) Senate Republican, was one of the first high-profile lawmakers to throw cold water on talks to create a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/us/huge-amounts-spent-on-immigration-study-finds.html) undocumented immigrants, calling such an idea a non-starter (http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/gop-senator-cornyn-border-security/story?id=18187299). Cornyn said that enforcement would be his foremost priority. We have to do “everything we can to secure our southwestern border,” Cornyn declared.

Cornyn’s idea of “robust” border security was made clear in an amendment he offered during debate over a supplemental spending bill three years ago. Cornyn’s amendment called for $3 billion (http://www.fairus.org/docs/111_S_Voting_Report_rev2.pdf) to be spent on a mix of drones, border security guards and funding for 3,300 beds (http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=NewsReleases&ContentRecord_id=98cba1dd-4e04-4c56-82c6-db1df1f5b8a0&ContentType_id=b94acc28-404a-4fc6-b143-a9e15bf92da4&Group_id=24eb5606-e2db-4d7f-bf6c-efc5df80b676) for immigrant detention over two years, as well as 500 additional detention officers. In 2005, Cornyn’s immigration reform legislation called for 10,000 (http://gozips.uakron.edu/~rws/Econ333/Immigration_FAIR_compare.pdf) new ICE detention beds.

http://www.thenation.com/article/173120/how-private-prisons-game-immigration-system?page=0,1&rel=emailNation#sthash.BPn86SqL.dpuf


corporate $Ms making federal immigration policy

[Winehole23]

http://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/poor-immigrants-use-public-benefits-lower-rate-poor

[spurraider21]

http://i.imgur.com/PsitiWP.jpg

[RD2191]

http://i.imgur.com/PsitiWP.jpg
:lol

[Wild Cobra]

I know it might fail in the senate, and Obummer will not sign in, but...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/240/text?q={%22search%22%3A[%22hr240%22]}

[boutons_deux]

if u say the visas are destroying the local workers, maybe you clowns should also stop handing out free college scholarships to internationals...

colleges recruit rich foreign students because they pay their own way

[boutons_deux]

I know it might fail in the senate, and Obummer will not sign in, but...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/240/text?q={%22search%22%3A[%22hr240%22]}

As with impeaching Clinton, Repugs get a huge hard on, but then fail to deliver.

[Winehole23]

It’s simple: The more skilled labor we have in America, the more innovation we have, the better our economy performs, and the more jobs we create for all Americans. Here are the facts:





Every 100 immigrants who earn advanced degrees in the U.S. and then stay to work in STEM fields create 262 jobs for American workers.
More than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.
More than three-fourths of all patents at the top 10 U.S. patent-producing universities (including Caltech, MIT, and Stanford) in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor.

[boutons_deux]

"had at least one foreign-born inventor."

I bet a country-of-origin breakout would show nearly all of those patents were for South or East Asians.

[Winehole23]

"human supply chains" -- legal immigration now puts so-called illegal immigration in the shade


In 2015, the number of migrant workers entering the United States on visas was nearly double that of undocumented arrivals—almost the inverse of just 10 years earlier. Yet notice of this dramatic shift, and examination of its implications for U.S. law and the regulation of employment in particular, has been absent from legal scholarship.



This Article fills that gap, arguing that employers’ recruitment of would-be migrants from other countries, unlike their use of undocumented workers already in the United States, creates a transnational network of labor intermediaries—the “human supply chain”—whose operation undermines the rule of law in the workplace, benefitting U.S. companies by reducing labor costs while creating distributional harms for U.S. workers, and placing temporary migrant workers in situations of severe subordination. It identifies the human supply chain as a key structure of the global economy, a close analog to the more familiar product supply chains through which U.S. companies manufacture products abroad. The Article highlights a stark governance deficit with regard to human supply chains, analyzing the causes and harmful effects of an effectively unregulated world market for human labor.
https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/assets/Uploads/ILR-102-2-Gordon.pdf