UCLA study says legalizing undocumented immigrants would help the economy

 Posted by on 2010/01/12  1 Response »
Jan 122010
 
UCLA study says legalizing undocumented immigrants would help the economy

Something we’ve all known has been verified based on surveys done after the 1986 amnesty program, that concludes that even during the recession, legalizing undocumented workers would benefit the economy. The report said that legalization, along with a program that allows for future immigration based on the labor market, would create jobs, increase wages and generate more tax revenue. Comprehensive immigration reform would add an estimated $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years, according to the report. “If we are going to create a solid recovery with good wages, we have to fix this hole that we have at the bottom of the labor market,” said the author, Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an associate professor with the UCLA MORE

Nativist Bigot starts new website to expose “subversive” groups

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Jan 072010
 
Nativist Bigot starts new website to expose "subversive" groups

by Sonia Scherr A new website purports to expose the machinations of “extremist” organizations that supposedly are trying to stifle debate about immigration. These groups represent “the well-funded far-left anti-enforcement mob that is ‘the other side’ of the majority of Americans,” states the website, Center for Immigration Truth. What Center for Immigration Truth doesn’t say is that the website is another project of John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who in many ways has been primary architect of the contemporary nativist movement. Tanton, who has a long history of bigotry and racist associations that has been documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is the registrant and administrator of the website, according to the Public Interest Registry database. The address in the MORE

Hate group FAIR looking for actors for smear video

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Nov 252009
 

America’s Voice Reports that the SPLC designated hate group FAIR (Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform), a misnomer if there ever is one, is looking for “ethnically ambiguous” actors, whatever the hell thsat is. Here’s the report: We just got word that the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group, is holding a casting call in Atlanta tomorrow for a new web video that will change the hearts and minds of the average American. Think you have what it takes to be a mouthpiece for hate? They will pay $500 to “ethnically ambiguous” actors in their 20s or 30s, with no Southern accent, who can work with a teleprompter — to MORE

The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

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Jul 072009
 
The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Sally Kohn,a senior strategist with the Center for Community Change, has an interesting perspective on the murders of Brisenia Flores and her father Raul last month, by Minuteman executive Shawna Forde. Her essay is right on point, although the anti immigrant crowd continues to deny vehemently, what Ms Kohn points out. the bloody acts in Arivaca reveal the true hatred and contempt behind anti-immigrant organizations in our country. Many well-meaning, average Americans who have understandable concerns about our economy and how they’re going to support their families have been convinced that anti-immigrant organizations are on their side and feel their pain. But the reality is, organizations like the Minutemen and FAIR are only co-opting our economic insecurity (an insecurity that’s MORE

Anti-Immigrant Front Group Courts Progressives With Shoddy Polling Data

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Jun 222009
 
Anti-Immigrant Front Group Courts Progressives With Shoddy Polling Data

Andrea Nill, at The WONK ROOM shines the light on the underhanded manner that the anti-immigrant movement will go to in order to deceive the American public regarding the facts of the immigration debate The deceptively named anti-immigrant front group, Progressives for Immigration Reform(PFIR), released a set of counter-intuitive polling data today suggesting that while over half of 600 polled liberals support a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the US, they also see immigration as an economic, social, and environmental liability.

Eugenicist Frosty Wooldridge has the rabid right all atwitter!

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Jun 222009
 
Eugenicist Frosty Wooldridge has the rabid right all atwitter!

Eugenicist, potential domestic terrorist and rabid right nutcase Frosty Wooldridge crawled out from under his rock recently with an article that has all the whackos from ALIPAC to VDARE in a tizzy. Titled Swallowing a scorpion from Mexico: immigration invasion of US, he stirs the shit and speaks of the fantasies of the rabid right. Invasions, Reconquistas, slandering Hispanic politicians who reject his view of how the world should be. The same Frosty garbage, regurgitated once again.

[Confirmed] Minuteman Child Killer Co-Hosted Anti-Immigration Event Featuring GOP Presidential Candidates

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Jun 202009
 
[Confirmed] Minuteman Child Killer Co-Hosted Anti-Immigration Event Featuring GOP Presidential Candidates

Firedoglake reports that Shawna Forde, the anti-immigrant leader of the Minuteman American Defense (M.A.D.) who was recently charged with the murder of a 9-year-old Hispanic girl and her father, co-hosted the 2007 Washington State Illegal Immigration Summit that reportedly featured presidential candidates Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter, and Fred Thompson.

Hate and Death: The Federation for American Immigration Reform Harvest in Suffolk County

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Dec 162008
 
Hate and Death: The Federation for American Immigration Reform Harvest in Suffolk County

by Rev. David L. Ostendorf When I first journeyed to Suffolk County eight years ago to work with religious, civic, and immigrant rights groups facing growing anti-immigrant activity stoked by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, I was stunned to witness the depth of anger and hostility that the group’s organizer had helped unleash. It all started “respectably” enough. But the attempt in 2000 by neo-Nazis to kill two Mexican workers was a harbinger of where growing, unchecked anti-immigrant fever and fervor could go; other violence followed. Now, an Ecuadoran immigrant, is dead at the hands of area youth who reportedly set out to beat up “some Mexicans,” bringing the tragedy of Suffolk County to its inevitable end. In those early MORE

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