Posted on 06/11/2012 5:53:37 PM PDT by OddLane
The issue of immigration-or even the mention of immigration enforcement-has been wholly neglected by the presumptive nominees of this countrys two major political parties. Even as prominent politicians find new ways in which to exploit ethnic divisions for the sake of political expediency, the perverse incentives of Americas federal immigration policies remain unaddressed. While Democrats seek to harvest what they expect to be a political windfall from Hispanic voters, Republicans pander, or hispander as some deem it, to what they view as an ascendent voting bloc, even going so far as introducing a bill eerily similar to one the GOP staked its reputation opposing during the final hours of a Democrat-controlled Congress.
Thats why the speech delivered by David North-seen above-at the Penn Club last month-the final one in this years lecture series sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies-was such a welcome relief, especially for those of us who are looking for reliable, empirical data which illuminates the dimensions of the problem were facing. A former Labor Department official, Mr. North is currently an expert on legal migration patterns and processes for CIS. In that capacity hes demonstrated just how immigration reforms enacted by Congress, from the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, to the mass amnesty of 1986 known as Simpson-Mazzoli, to the Immigration Act of 1990-which introduced the horrifying concept of the Visa Lottery-have irreparably altered the demographic future of the United States.
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Well I can agree with you on that, immigration needs to be of skilled people useful to the country, Canada is doing that more now and other countries like Australia have been doing it all along, which is why their base of immigrants are usually quite skilled.
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