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The report titled "Undocumented Immigrants In Texas: A Financial Analysis of the Impact to the State Budget and Economy" found
that "the absence of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants
in Texas in fiscal 2005 would have been a loss to our gross state
product of $17.7 billion. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58
billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state
services they received." |
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"The body count keeps growing as the crackdown intensifies against
people who were born 'on the wrong side' of a geographical boundary." |
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"The Bush administration has sought to control immigration at the border,
but that's virtually impossible," said Harley Shaiken, director of UC
Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. "The beginnings of immigration
are in the displacement of farmers in Mexico." |
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"Congress cannot effectively address illegal immigration - or any other major domestic economic issue - without first finding ways to strengthen and protect America's middle-class jobs, the backbone of our economy." |
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"...reducing inequality is the only sure way to reduce the threat." |
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Washington Post Comparison of U.S. Senate and House Immigration Bills(The comparison has been copied to this website in case the link does not work): |
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The False Debate Over 'Broken Borders'
Large segments
of the media have biased their coverage [of immigration legislation] towards a pro-business
standpoint on the debate, which is misleadingly portrayed as a
pro-immigrant position; the opposition to this view is a racialized,
nativist perspective that is misrepresented as advocacy for U.S.-born
workers. Actual pro-immigrant, pro-worker and international points of
view have been almost entirely absent.
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) article |
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"But those wishing to test the extent of the immigrant problem might want to conduct this quick test:" |
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"While there has been some media coverage of NAFTA's ruinous impact on US industrial communities, there has been even less media attention paid to its catastrophic effects in Mexico:" |
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"Undocumented working-poor families have higher effective income tax rates than their neighbors who enjoy higher income levels." |
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"The top 10 countries hosting the largest number of international migrants have neither signed nor ratified a 1990 UN convention aimed at protecting the rights of migrant workers worldwide." |
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"Thirteen years ago we were assured that the North American Free Trade Agreement would transform Mexico into a prosperous middle-class society. 'There will be less illegal immigration,' promised President Bill Clinton, 'because more Mexicans will be able to support their children by staying home.'" |
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"There's no simple solution but one major step is to enforce basic labor laws that require employers to pay all their employees the minimum wage and protect their health and safety." |
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"A fact studiously ignored in the United States (see, for example, Time magazine's February 6, 2006 cover story on migration), is that the US has promoted the same economic policies that have wrought disaster." |
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"This isn't about immigration - it's about economics." |
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