I'm not so sure about that. You should hear some of the Republican politicians grovel before Rush Limbaugh, for instance. Having right-wing media turn on you can likely damage your popularity among conservative voters.The ineptness of Trump to handle anything is present here as other persons would have understood that these right-wing talking heads need far more his approval than the other way around. — ssu
Funny you should mention that, because Mike Pence was a guest on today's Rush Limbaugh show. Pence said: " Thank you, Rush. It’s always an honor. I just left the Oval Office — told the president I was headed to be on your program — and we couldn’t be more grateful for your voice on the airwaves of America every day. Everything we’ve accomplished over the last two years — rebuilding our military, reviving our economy, setting a record for conservatives appointed to our courts, America’s growing at home, we’re standing tall on the world stage — you’ve played a key role in that. And, Rush, we don’t thank you enough. But thank you for all that you’ve meant to this movement and to the progress that we’ve made in this country."I'm not so sure about that. You should hear some of the Republican politicians grovel before Rush Limbaugh, for instance. Having right-wing media turn on you can likely damage your popularity among conservative voters. — Arkady
Illegal or not, our community cannot handle the influx at the rate that we are looking at. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
What I mean is our resources to provide physical care, medical care, provide mental health care, education and to protect the influx of our Southern neighbors, in addition to the needs of our own citizens who are in their own dire straits has reached capacity.
We have citizens in need like the California community of Paradise, where 196 of their 200 high school athletes, were made homeless overnight. Where the teachers and senior citizens who have nothing and I do mean NOTHING and no time left in life to rebuild. Do they not deserve the financial help and attention that they paid into our society for their whole lives to keep them, the poor elderly off the streets? — ArguingWAristotleTiff
The proportion of immigrants living in the country without legal authorisation has fallen, following a sharp drop in net unauthorised immigration from about 500,000 per year in the early 2000s to roughly zero since 2009.
About 75% of unauthorised immigrants are thought to have lived in the US for more than 10 years.
Immigrants in the economy
Immigrants contribute directly to economic growth - boosting the population and increasing demand for goods and services.
Giving many unauthorised immigrants citizenship and allowing more immigration would raise annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth - the total value of goods and services produced - by 0.33 percentage points over the next decade, the US Congressional Budget Office has suggested. In contrast, removing unauthorised immigrants would lower growth by 0.27 percentage points a year.
This is significant when it comes to national economic growth. A 10-year $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment might boost GDP by 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points per year.
Immigrants also contribute to economic growth in a less direct way.
Although they account for only 18% of workers over the age of 25, immigrants account for 28% of high quality patents - a sign of underlying technological progress, linked to productivity and economic growth.
Output in the economy is higher and grows faster with more immigrants, as they increase the number of workers and productivity.
Immigrant workers accounted for 39% of the increase in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics jobs - rising to 29% of all workers in this sector - in 2010.
Nevertheless, they are most likely to be employed in service occupations, such as chefs, housekeepers and nursing aides.
Immigrants also tend to have a positive impact on US finances - paying more in taxes than they receive in government services, when compared with native-born workers.
It is particularly striking that among low-skilled workers, immigrants are more likely to be employed and less likely to receive government benefits than those born in the US.
Since its founding, immigrants have been an integral part of the fabric weaving together the US economy and society writ large.
Understanding who they are and what role they have in the US can help shape the debate around those who make it their home in years to come. — BBC News
Yet the right-wing media didn't at first like Trump. Rupert Murdoch didn't like Trump and in the first moments of the elections you could see this with Fox hardballing the candidate at first. But then he had to back down and the rest we know.I'm not so sure about that. You should hear some of the Republican politicians grovel before Rush Limbaugh, for instance. Having right-wing media turn on you can likely damage your popularity among conservative voters. — Arkady
Immigrants contribute directly to economic growth - boosting the population and increasing demand for goods and services. — BBC News
BBC News (The top provider of fake news in the U.K.) is a good source of irrational slogans to be exposed. — DiegoT
BBC News (The top provider of fake news in the U.K.) is a good source of irrational slogans to be exposed. — DiegoT
For example: you can not assume that all people coming to a country are a homogeneous group, where everybody contributes equally and in the same direction to society. Precisely the point of defending borders and expelling illegal immigrants, is to discriminate which people will have a positive impact and are worth taking in, from those that will be a burden or even a factor of instability and will increase crime, that we need to keep out at all costs. You can not put together a legal applicant from Spain who dreams of giving the U.S. another Nobel Prize like astrophysicist Ignacio Ugarte-Urra with, say, a man who comes illegally, doesn´t speak English and who has ten children and two wives and three goats in his country that he hopes to bring to the U.S when he´s legalized. Not discriminating and not selecting among the very different people who wants to come is unjust, unwise, and suicidal in the long term. — DiegoT
Please do not care about "my background"; only care about my arguments that are sometimes more right than wrong, other times more wrong than right. — DiegoT
because Podemos (radical left paid by Iran) — DiegoT
(without embracing the Right) — DiegoT
Does thus automatically set the stage for a need for immigration? — frank
Certainly having a fertility rate below the replacement level leaves you with the clear choice of either heading off a demographic cliff when your highest-spending, highest-earning, and highest-taxed age groups begin to decline and your fastest growing group becomes financially-draining retired folks (e.g. as in South Korea — Baden
Relatively liberal immigration policies make a lot of long-term economic sense. — Baden
I think that it's not so much that there aren't enough of us to fill these gaps in the job market, but more that there aren't enough of us who are willing to do so. That contributes towards a shortage on the domestic supply side which can be seen as an opportunity by both employers and foreign job seekers alike. — S
I think that it's not so much that there aren't enough of us to fill these gaps in the job market, but more that there aren't enough of us who are willing to do so. — S
I don't want to clean out toilets either. But I would if I had to. — frank
You would want to clean toilets if the wage and benefit package was excellent, and if the job was structured as dignified safety and health work, which it in fact is. Can we afford to elevate toilet-cleaning and adult-diaper changing? — Bitter Crank
it would get boring — frank
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