Unemployment and Immigration Study (cspan)-thread 2

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1. I think this is the 'balance" to the AFL/CIO segment that was just on.

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2. this is based on data that Gov collects.

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3. Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org)---the study is at the website

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4. talking of people with low levels of education-not doing good economically

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5. saying the idea that there are jobs that Americans won't do is a myth.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. I believe that

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1212/p14s01-cogn.html
Read Myth #2 at above link


Thanks for the heads-up. Am watching this on C-SPAN now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. So refusing to educate immigrants is not a good strategy

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6. 473 categories of employment are used in this study

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8. I like the first segment better (1st thread)---

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10. but it is interesting how this myth is dispelled!

[IsItJustMe]

11. Unemployment rate for American unskilled workers 13%. Competition

can be hell in our capitalistic society, especially cruel to poor people.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. the periods of the most robust, healthy and broadbased growth always

took place with unfettered or wide-open immigration policies.

If we draw in people who want to suceed, they will do so, adding to the tapestry of America and to its wealth (in every sense of the world)

Today's anti-immigration people remind me of today's Bushitas and corporate leaders. it is not enough to be doing well or very well, or even extraordinarily well financially; Everyone else has to be suffering before they feel totally vindicated and successful. Applied to immigration, (considering that everyone in this country is a bloody immigrant or offspring of) these people cannot stand the idea that immigrants might succeed and do well here, that they might better their lives and improve ours in the process, or that open immigration actually helps everyone in our country.

[IsItJustMe]

13. Simplistic platitudes don't work. This is a very complicated issue with

far reaching effects on every aspect of our society. To simply say that people are anti-immigration and vindictive because they see major problems is dismissive at best and serves no purpose for a healthy debate.

As with any issue, Illegal immigration is neither the cause of all ills nor is it a panacea.

I car about immigrants and yet I also care about unskilled American workers. I don't think it has to be an either/or situation however.

[Cleita]

14. I didn't see much of it, but what I did see seemed to try to

address the issues instead of propagandize.