Raids Help Drag the Economy Down
Published March 23, 2009 @ 09:36PM PT
I came back to the office today to find USCIS is still unreasonably denying cases and ICE is still working overtime to deport my clients. One day is good, the next is bad. That is the roller coaster of immigration practice.
No inspiration for me = another news/blogs roundup for you. Disculpe!
Angelo Paparelli is not impressed by USCIS's application of Attorney General Holder's new transparency directive. Responding to multiple questions at a USCIS/AILA meeting with "file a FOIA" doesn't do much to inspire confidence in the new policy. Looks like the same old USCIS to the trained eye.
Stop by DreamACTivist to stop the deportation of Rigo Padilla. Props go to the Dreamers for their recent successes in stopping the ICE deportation machine, at least temporarily. But as the unnamed editorialist (DreamACTivist?) notes:
We cannot keep saving one student at a time while countless, unnamed others get deported from the only country they consider their home. We need the federal DREAM Act to ensure that American-bred talent, ingenuity, scholarship and investment stay in America.
As you can see from my new and improved profile pic, this blog will soon embark on a new phase: All Dream, All the Time.
Immigration Impact has some handy graphics for conceptualizing the economic impact of raids vs. legalization. The one pictured above represents the negative dynamic we are currently seeing. Not smart!
And coming soon, why all the reviewers of Crossing Over were wrong. It was a solid flick--and this coming from someone who thinks most movies suck, especially movies named "Crash." Rather than comprising a series of "unlikely encounters" that "strain credulity," much of it was ripped from the headlines, if the reviewers had been checking the Sanctuarysphere. Memo to the critics: Life Is Dramatic!! Especially when you're undocumented.
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I believe legalization will cause a greater negative impact in our economy. Right now illegal aliens are bargain workers. Imagine having to pay a fair wage, that may very well result in many newly legalized aliens being laid-off.
Posted by D I on 04/05/2009 @ 06:42AM PT
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Hmmm well that's a thought...Now imagine illegal immigrants becoming legal and paying into taxes and social security like we do...is it really a negative impact or is it just that employers want to scam the system by paying low wages to illegals when there is nothing these poor people can do about it? and of course the employers then get to claim all kinds of false situations (i.e. my family and I work here [boost up that social security earnings...nice]...) There is a whole lot wrong with the system the way it is right now and someone has got to make a change...Fair wages would lead to fair lifestyles for these people...I would have to say that there are a lot of people being paid unfair amounts of money (i.e. CEO's, managers...) and if they didn't go and buy $1,000,000.00 houses and boats and airplanes and the most expensive car you could buy then all of that excess money could be used to support and take care of the rest of the people who have fallen into hard times...when I was taking my undergrad I believe someone had thrown a statistic out there like 10% of the population in the world owns 90% of the worlds wealth....Food for thought isn't it....so should we be picking on the illegals or should we be picking on the people who have money?!?! Power is something the masses have whether they have money or not!!! So I would have to say that we should have a lot of say in what is going on right now in the world and I don't think that what is going on is fair....the "elite" class needs to create a better world for the majority of its people...and they had best not start crying about how hard they worked for where they are because I know a lot of hard working Americans and illegals that break thier backs everyday and never in thier lifetime do they see a paycheck for much more than $500.00 a week!!!!
Posted by Tina Al-Amoody on 09/27/2009 @ 08:09PM PT
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