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Pilar Marrero to participate in political discussion panel at the LA Times Festival of Books – Saturday
Pilar Marrero, Senior Political and Immigration writer for La Opinion and author of the book “Killing the American Dream, How anti immigration extremists are destroying the nation”, will participate as a panelist in the LA Times Festival of Books this Saturday April 20th. The Festival is taking place this weekend in the campus of the [...]
read moreSecond generation of recent immigrants is socially mobile and…more politically liberal than the general population.
One of the persistent myths around the immigration of today (mostly Latino, majority Mexican) is that today´s immigrants and their descendants are somehow less able to move ahead and integrate into the larger American economy, language and culture. PEW Hispanic Center just put out a new analysis that shows this contention is untrue. Quoting from [...]
read moreThe “low skill” workers of today are the “paupers” of yesterday (Book excerpt)
One of the most persistent myths about immigration is that low skilled workers -meaning blue collar workers, usually not with a higher degree but often some very specific skill, like agriculture or meat packing- are bad for the economy. In yesterday´s House Judiciary Committee hearing we heard more of the same. We need “STEM” graduates [...]
read moreBenjamin Franklin was concerned over “low skilled immigrants speaking another language”.
In watching the House Judiciary Committee hearing today and hearing most of the Republican members go back to concerns about “illegal low skilled immigrants” (bad) vs “high skilled immigrants” (good, but also not legal because Congress hasn´t managed to pass any law that benefit these last group either) I was reminded of the history of [...]
read moreImmigration Hearing in Judiciary Commitee is LIVE now
Here you can see the Judiciary Committee Hearing being held right now in the House of Representatives. There´s no bill to discuss, it´s a preliminary discussion called by the Republican leadership of the Committee. Here´s the page of the Committee with the Agenda of the hearing and the list of witnesses and their statements.
read moreBorder Patrol getting “bonuses” and “vacation awards” as they increase number of arrests
You would say that a nice incentive program is a good thing to have when you are looking to reach some goals in an organization. The problem is that sometimes those rewards seem to “incentivize” the wrong thing, like it´s shown in this report by NYU School of Law and Families for Freedom published last [...]
read moreImmigration reform: a matter of legacy for Obama, survival for Republicans.
Just sworn in to his second term, President Barack Obama does not have to worry about another election, but he does about the legacy he will leave when his presidency ends. So in his speech Tuesday, Obama not only urged Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform but he went a step further, stating that [...]
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