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What Obama Plan Misses
Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 24, 2014 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 11/25/2014 7:47:08 AM PST by Academiadotorg

The Constitutional law professor in the White House missed a few key details in his pitch to halt the deportation of several million illegal aliens, according to another law professor. “I thought it was a pretty good speech, except for the facts,” Jay Ting, a law professor at Temple said last Friday in remarks at the Heritage Foundation.

For one thing, “Qualified legal immigrants have waited 20 years” to become citizens, Ting observed. Ting served as an attorney in the U. S. Justice Department during the administration of George H. W. Bush.

Moreover, “There are those on the other side who will tell you numbers don’t matter,” Ting noted. “They matter.”

Moreover, the possibility that illegal aliens making less than the minimum wage will depress both employment prospects for Americans and wages is not one to be dismissed lightly. “Eighteen percent of teenagers can’t even find a part-time job,” Ting noted. “For black teenagers, it’s 32 percent.”

“Wages have not gone up since 2000,” Senator Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, pointed out in comments at Heritage earlier that morning.

“Do you think there’s a connection between stagnant wages and high profits?” Ting asked. “Big business wants to expand the labor pool and depress wages.” Median family incomes have gone down by $3,000 since 2007, Sen. Sessions averred.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; deportations; immigration; pimpmyblog; unemployment
legal immigrants might feel understandably dissed as the administration halts deportations
1 posted on 11/25/2014 7:47:08 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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“I thought it was a pretty good speech, except for the facts,” Jay Ting, a law professor at Temple said last Friday in remarks at the Heritage Foundation. ..........There have been a lot of good speeches made over the years, & could be a lot more as long as they don’t have to depend on facts. Guess Obama was counting on no one doing their homework.


2 posted on 11/25/2014 7:57:40 AM PST by oldtech
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I love quoting myself:

Obama’s declaration of legalization is nothing more than a signal to third worlders to advance across the border en masse.

Obama is loading the gun by which he will shoot America in the belly.


3 posted on 11/25/2014 8:06:41 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Es Mi Partido, Ahora!)
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To: Academiadotorg

My husband was a legal resident (Canada) with a green card, and his Naturalization process was very uncomplicated.

However, we had neighbors who were German and bought the house next to ours. They moved to the States because their children were here. One child had married an American and was able to be Naturalized. The other child had been here on work visas and was trying to obtain a Green Card. He owned property, paid taxes, but after trying for many years had still been denied.

Our neighbor’s plight astounded me. The gentleman was a successful businessman in Germany. He bought the home for cash but was only allowed to spend so many months a year in the States, so he came and went from Germany a couple times a year.

He did not speak English when he arrived (he was in his late 50’s) so he enrolled in English classes at the local college and became quite fluent. But after being granted visas for each trip to the US...the government decided that he would not be allowed to get anymore visas. He was confused and hired an immigration lawyer, but has not won his case, to date.

He paid property taxes, was no drain on any American welfare, and yet they have and continue to deny him visas.
It just makes no sense. He was baffled especially in light of the folks that do it illegally and reside in the States for years. Try to do it the right way? Well, no good deed goes unpunished, I guess.


4 posted on 11/25/2014 8:10:29 AM PST by Dawn53Fl
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Go ahead Bonehead and Turtlehead, allow this to happen and the demise of the Gelding Old Party will be on you - both of you.




5 posted on 11/25/2014 8:20:58 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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As far as the illegals paying taxes, everyone knows low income jobs don’t pay taxes...it all gets send back to them at the end of the year when they file. And if these folks are allowed to take deductions such as EIC...they’ll be getting a check from Uncle Sam as well.


6 posted on 11/25/2014 8:22:47 AM PST by Dawn53Fl
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FICA is a tax. One of the reasons they need to scam the illegals in is to prop up social security. It’s also a regressive tax in that the poor pay it but have shorter lifespans (and thus lower draw) than the middle and upper class who benefit from it.


7 posted on 11/25/2014 8:28:34 AM PST by FateAmenableToChange
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To: oldtech
Guess Obama was counting on no one doing their homework.

Shyeah! Why would he?

8 posted on 11/25/2014 8:29:53 AM PST by uncitizen (I weep for my country)
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To: Cheerio

Gelding Old Party. That’s good.


9 posted on 11/25/2014 9:20:36 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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