Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio: There #39;s more to be done on immigration
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They were criticized for being too provocative and too critical in demanding immigration reform.
When some of them arranged for youths who had been deported to try to come back across the Mexican border, setting up a showdown with the Obama administration over whether they would be allowed to return to the U.S., even the most enthusiastic immigration activists balked at their strategy.
And when these group of young activists, undocumented youths who had grown up in the United States and are known as Dreamers, locked horns with even some Democrats who were leading the push for immigration reform particularly President Barack Obama himself immigration activists grew frustrated, claiming it was wrong to direct criticism at the president, someone who sympathized with their cause.
The so-called Dreamers, however, did not back down in fact, they pushed back harder when immigration reform failed to materialize.
And so when Obama delivered his prime-time speech last Thursday, announcing that he was issuing an executive order that would suspend deportation for up to 5 million undocumented immigrants, the Dreamers felt vindicated.
It was their single biggest victory so far the largest change in immigration in many years. And with that, they recaptured the drivers seat in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform.
We got a lot of backlash for going after Obama, said Erika Andiola, one of the most prominent Dreamers pushing for immigration reform, to Fox News Latino. But he is the president of the United States, he said he supported immigrants, but Dreamers were saying he was getting them and their families deported.
At the end of the day, it was that pressure that created a moral crisis and played a part in pushing the president to issue the executive order.
- Lucy Allain, immigrant activist
Since 2009, the Dreamers have taken a fledgling campaign that was focused on getting a law that would provide young undocumented immigrants with a chance to live and work in the United States, and turned it into the engine of immigration advocacy that has broadened to include legalization for many groups of people who are here illegally.
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Dreamers pushed the boundaries on immigration reform ...
Charles Mostoller | Reuters
Undocumented immigrant Angela Navarro and her husband Ermer Fernandez (L), along with other immigrants and supporters, watch President Barack Obama announce executive action on immigration, at the West Kensington Ministry church, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 2014.
The loud, ongoing debate over immigration reform often overlooks one very important impact from letting more foreigners come to live and work in the U.S.
Many researchers believe it's good for the economy.
The U.S. economy can use all the help it can get these days. Though the American job and housing markets continue their halting recovery, the engines of growth are slowing in the rest of the world. From Europe to China to Japan, global growth has so far resisted efforts to shake off the lingering effects of a massive debt hangover that followed the credit crisis of 2008.
"A return to the 'good old days' of 2003-2007 does not appear to be in the cards," Wells Fargo Securities economists wrote last week in a note on the slowing global economy.
Read MoreUS can't dodge global slowdown forever
While U.S. growth appears to be bucking the trend of the rest of the developed world in the short run, it shares the same long-term demographic headwind now confronting policymakers in Europe and Japan. As the population ages, their younger people aren't entering the labor force fast enough to replace the older workers who are retiring. And there are fewer younger taxpayers to cover the cost of providing retirement income and health care for those older workers.
"Immigrants do not typically compete with Americans for jobs," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue wrote last week in an op-ed piece in The Washington Times. "The reality is that they create more jobs through entrepreneurship, economic activity and tax revenues."
Expanding the U.S. workforce with younger immigrants would also help offset the rising cost of Social Security payments and health care for a retiring baby boom generation.
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Economic case for immigration reform
They were criticized for being too provocative and too critical in demanding immigration reform.
When some of them arranged for youths who had been deported to try to come back across the Mexican border, setting up a showdown with the Obama administration over whether they would be allowed to return to the U.S., even the most enthusiastic immigration activists balked at their strategy.
And when these group of young activists, undocumented youths who had grown up in the United States and are known as Dreamers, locked horns with even some Democrats who were leading the push for immigration reform particularly President Barack Obama himself immigration activists grew frustrated, claiming it was wrong to direct criticism at the president, someone who sympathized with their cause.
The so-called Dreamers, however, did not back down in fact, they pushed back harder when immigration reform failed to materialize.
And so when Obama delivered his prime-time speech last Thursday, announcing that he was issuing an executive order that would suspend deportation for up to 5 million undocumented immigrants, the Dreamers felt vindicated.
It was their single biggest victory so far the largest change in immigration in many years. And with that, they recaptured the drivers seat in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform.
We got a lot of backlash for going after Obama, said Erika Andiola, one of the most prominent Dreamers pushing for immigration reform, to Fox News Latino. But he is the president of the United States, he said he supported immigrants, but Dreamers were saying he was getting them and their families deported.
At the end of the day, it was that pressure that created a moral crisis and played a part in pushing the president to issue the executive order.
- Lucy Allain, immigrant activist
Since 2009, the Dreamers have taken a fledgling campaign that was focused on getting a law that would provide young undocumented immigrants with a chance to live and work in the United States, and turned it into the engine of immigration advocacy that has broadened to include legalization for many groups of people who are here illegally.
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Dreamers pushed the boundaries on immigration reform and now seem to control the narrative
Charles Mostoller | Reuters
Undocumented immigrant Angela Navarro and her husband Ermer Fernandez (L), along with other immigrants and supporters, watch President Barack Obama announce executive action on immigration, at the West Kensington Ministry church, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 2014.
The loud, ongoing debate over immigration reform often overlooks one very important impact from letting more foreigners come to live and work in the U.S.
Many researchers believe it's good for the economy.
The U.S. economy can use all the help it can get these days. Though the American job and housing markets continue their halting recovery, the engines of growth are slowing in the rest of the world. From Europe to China to Japan, global growth has so far resisted efforts to shake off the lingering effects of a massive debt hangover that followed the credit crisis of 2008.
"A return to the 'good old days' of 2003-2007 does not appear to be in the cards," Wells Fargo Securities economists wrote last week in a note on the slowing global economy.
Read MoreUS can't dodge global slowdown forever
While U.S. growth appears to be bucking the trend of the rest of the developed world in the short run, it shares the same long-term demographic headwind now confronting policymakers in Europe and Japan. As the population ages, their younger people aren't entering the labor force fast enough to replace the older workers who are retiring. And there are fewer younger taxpayers to cover the cost of providing retirement income and health care for those older workers.
"Immigrants do not typically compete with Americans for jobs," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue wrote last week in an op-ed piece in The Washington Times. "The reality is that they create more jobs through entrepreneurship, economic activity and tax revenues."
Expanding the U.S. workforce with younger immigrants would also help offset the rising cost of Social Security payments and health care for a retiring baby boom generation.
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The economic case for immigration reform