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[Top News] Proponents alter immigration legislation in the face of tough ...: Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who announced the forum with King, argues the reforms advocated by Gutierrez would allow illegal immigrants to take jobs that should go to citizens and legal immigrants. Smith and King argue Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was wrong in suggesting last week that the recession has triggered a significant decline in immigration and the best opportunity to enact reform.

[The Great Debate] The Great Debate » Debate Archive » A paradox of plenty - hunger ...: More evidence that the gap between myth and reality is shrinking comes from the American Human Development project, a research group which found that “social mobility is now less fluid in the United States than in other affluent nations…a poor child born in Germany, France, Canada or one of the Nordic countries has a better chance to join the middle class in adulthood than an American child born into similar circumstances.”

[Carer's Blog - Health Care] Obama Or Clinton? Read These Carefully And Give Your Vote For The ...: Supported Bush-backed immigration reform legislation, which would have increased funding and improved border security technology, improved enforcement of existing laws, and provided a legal path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. Voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.

[Parliamentary Library Web Site Publications and Events] Research Paper: As indicated above, in French republican thought, broadly speaking, social exclusion is seen to be the result of a break-down of the social bond between the individual and society. And, .

[Hispanosphere] Orlando Sentinel - Immigration reform supporters renewing their ...: Now let us look at the plight of the American Citizen. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment Report released on November 6, 2009: Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations - Unemployment Rate = 13.3% .

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » In (Limited) Praise of ...: One can easily imagine a right-wing populist movement blaming high unemployment on illegal immigrant “criminals” who “steal” American jobs. By and large, however, none of this has happened. Given the inherent constraints of popular political .... I may be, to some, a “rabid right-wing conservative” but I am also a lawyer and, in any challenge to President Obama's citizenship, I believe that, as SCOTUS is now composed, there is no Justice who would find otherwise. ...

[I cite] I cite: t r u t h o u t | Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern ...: Not only are the flesh-chomping, blood-lusting, pale-faced creatures with mouths full of black goo appearing in movie theaters, television series, and everywhere in screen culture as shock advertisements, but these flesh-eating zombies have become an apt metaphor for the current state of American politics. Not only do zombies portend a new aesthetic in which hyper-violence is embodied in the form of a carnival of snarling creatures engorging elements of human anatomy, but they also portend the arrival of a revolting politics that has a ravenous appetite for spreading destruction and promoting human suffering and hardship.[4] This is a politics in which cadres of the unthinking and living dead promote civic catastrophes and harbor apocalyptic visions, focusing more on death than life.

[Liveshots] Puerto Rican Coffee Farms Need Workers « Liveshots: I am a Puerto Rican living in the US since I was 1 year old in 1965. I am now 45.Lived in Puerto Rico from 1998 to 2007 and can honestly say were the worst years of my life.Puerto Rico has no customer service very often you are treated like crap at the stores you shop(like they are doing you a favor)There is no such thing as an appointment you make one and when you arrive they tell you it's first come first serve your 8 am appointment turns into an all day affair and I do me all day.You go to get a drivers license and the drug addicts are outside waiting to usher you to the mobil homes, set up around the area as Drs.office for your physical another for your 2x2 photos another with the payment stamps you need for your transaction, and yet another with photo copy facilities as you also need to provide DTOP with all copies as they will not do it( an easy way to forge documents).This situation has happened before in the Green pepper, tomato, mango,onion and many other fields the products rot as no one wants to work no matter what they are offered to do so.I remember one time when they were offered as much as $10 an hour and people would say $10 an hour in the sun NO WAY!!Don't even get me started on the rudeness of drivers.Despierta Puerto Rico

[Half Sigma] Half Sigma: Why unemployment will be worse than in the 1980s: The living standards in Muslim countries like Algeria and Tunisia are such that, while Algeria isn't nearly as wealthy as Europe, it has just high enough living standards that France could expect a sizable portion of their Algerian citizens to pick up and leave if they offered a big enough "citizenship buyout" for around $100,000.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » The Coming PaleoConservative Moment: While it’s true that Ron Paul supporters, the Palin/Beck/Tea Party crowd, and the throngs of Obama ‘08/McDonnell ‘09 angry middle class independents are ultimately three different and distinct groups of Americans, it’s also true that all of these voters, whether white collar or blue collar, whether carrying a bong, a Bible, or a BlackBerry, have several things in common. They all oppose the top-down decision-making of the federal government.

[RedState] Job Creator Immigration - Erick's blog - RedState: was coined in 1789 by an American cartographer, and it was considered far from being a term of endearment). Then there were moderate flows, lulls and even some negative net migration years up until the great wave beginning in 1890 - the numbers you might see never count the level of repatriation, but if the repatriation levels of the great wave are at all informative, there have to have been some “zero net”

[The Reality Check] The Reality Check » Blog Archive » The Joy of Rebuilding (Issue ...: The couple sat in my living room and agreed that the first Washington march was one of the greatest mountain top experience of their lives The uncanny confraternity of ordinary Americans at the march was personal, social, .These distinctions fell away and the kinship of being fellow Americans remained.

[The Swamp] Health care: 2010 elections start here: The Swamp: " President Obama, (Senate Majoirty Leader) Harry Reid and their liberal Senate allies will surely gloat and pat themselves on the back for winning tonight's vote in the dark of night during a rare Saturday session, while Americans were home with their families,'' Steele said. "But as they do, those moderate Democrats who voted for Harry Reid's bill will have to answer to their constituents."

[Big Government] Big Government » Blog Archive » Congress, We Don't Trust You With ...: As the debate rages on, it is clear that the American public does not trust the Congress, period.  The army of lobbyists and special interests negotiating various carve outs, mandates and other special privileges into the 2000 page nightmare has Americans justifiably in nearly full rebellion.   While both Parties argue over which bill ought to be on the table they are trying the patience of an American public that wants no bill at all.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: And why is it you never hear the democrats mention TORT REFORM when our legal system and the ambulance-chasing lawyers that feed off of it are the main reason healthcare cost to much in this country? (Just in case you haven't figured this one out, it's because those ambulance-chasing lawyers are one of the democrats most generous and reliable contributors.) The democrats are more interested in grabbing more power and funneling money to their lawyer contributors than they are in actually making healthcare more accessible and inexpensive for the American people.

[Hit & Run] Roubini: Jobs Are Dead, Long Live Jobs - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine: It would be unfair to say that all libertarians are like Akston, in that they would willingly put the interests of foreign citizens ahead of the interests of their fellow citizens and in that they just don't "grok" the whole citizenship thing.

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