........................................................................................................................................................................................
We dont want our workers deported. Thats the bottom line.
Kim Shanahan, Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association
Welcome to the other side of illegal immigration.
Its the flip side of secure our borders first, the side that depends on the labor of folks from somewhere else to deliver products to Americans.
Like homes.
And restaurant meals.
And any number of services that used to provide the jobs that used to provide preparation for or membership in the countrys now-shrinking middle class.
Lets face it. Many Americans just wont work as carpenters, framers, drywall installers, bricklayers, roofers and painters. They wont pour concrete or lay adobe. Its honest work, and the pay is pretty good. But its just too hard. Its easier to collect government bennies, play video games and get subsidized insurance.
Thats the system weve allowed to develop, and weve filled the void with immigrant labor. No case better illustrates this than the need to import tens of thousands of mostly undocumented Hispanic workers to rebuild New Orleans after Katrina. And this need for immigrant labor has been in the face of high unemployment and record low workforce participation numbers in the U.S., especially among people under 35.
Go here to see the original:
Editorial: Immigration reform must factor in workforce needs
Meeting to help Central Indiana immigrants prepare for immigration reform
Meeting to help Central Indiana immigrants prepare for immigration reform.
By: WTHR
See original here:
Meeting to help Central Indiana immigrants prepare for immigration reform - Video
Pat Buchanan on price tag to carry out immigration reform Fox News Video
Please subscribe us for following the last news. We are the fastest news channel! December-2014.
By: Breaking News
Read the rest here:
Pat Buchanan on price tag to carry out immigration reform Fox News Video - Video
Obama to NPR: #39;We Have To Show Realism, Practicality #39; On Immigration
In a year-end interview with NPR #39;s Steve Inskeep, President Obama says there are many in the Republican Party who recognize the need for comprehensive immigration reform. Read the story: ...
By: NPR
See the original post here:
Obama to NPR: 'We Have To Show Realism, Practicality' On Immigration - Video
GWEN IFILL: A new Congress arrives in Washington after the new year, even as many veterans head out.
Tonight and tomorrow, we talk to two of them, one Democrat and one Republican, about what they found here and what they now leave behind.
We begin tonight with Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.
Judy conducted this exit interview a few days ago.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator Chambliss, thank you for talking with us.
So, you
SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS, (R) Georgia: Sure. Good to be with you.
(LAUGHTER)
JUDY WOODRUFF: You are retiring just as your party is about to take over the majority in the Senate, a new opportunity to work on some of the issues you care the most about. No regrets?
SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS: No regrets whatsoever, Judy.
Here is the original post:
Outgoing Sen. Chambliss talks debt, immigration reform and hard-headed partisanship