They Just Keep Coming

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They Just Keep Coming

• Immigration and Culture in the United States

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A Short History of Illegal Immigration
by a man who used to be more open to more than
one side of an issue and who didnt yell so much
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the official story of the U.S. and immigration
death and murder and theft vs. bravery and
hardship and sharing and community BOTH ARE
EQUAL PARTS OF THE TRUE STORY
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1. thievery, theft, murder

• Seen through the eyes of indigenous peoples

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2. bravery and hardship

• Most Europeans who immigrated to the U.S. in the
  late 19th and early 20th centuries were poor
• The poorest of these were the immigrants from
  southern Europe
• Video (740 1055)

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Five outside the box thoughts
about immigration
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1. BUSINESS AND LARGE LANDOWNERS HAVE SHAPED OUR
IMMIGRATION POLICY

• How many immigrants do we need?

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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled
masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched
refuse of yourteeming shore Send these, the
homeless,tempest-tost, to me I lift my lamp
beside the golden door. Emma Lazarus
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BUSINESS vs. La Migra

• We relax our borders to accommodate business needs

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IMMIGRANT vs. REFUGEE

• IMMIGRATION POLICY preference to wealthy,
  educated, and relatives
• vs.
• REFUGEE POLICY policies favor wealth and
  political allies

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Background of Immigrants

• Less than H.S. Education

• College Degree

• U.S. Pop 17.1
• Asian Immigrants 21.2
• Europe, Russia,
• Canada 23.5
• Latin America and Carribean 57.4
• African Immigrants 10.6

• U.S. Pop 23.1
• Asian Immigrants 42.5
• Europe, Russia,
• Canada 28.9
• Latin America and
• Carribean 9.1
• African Immigrants 51.1
• Highest number with advanced degrees

Source 2000 U.S. Census
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Toni Scully, whose family owns a pear-packing
company in Northern California, could not sell
tons of fruit that had been picked too late for
markets. (2006)
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2. NEW IMMIGRANTS ARE DEMONIZED

• Keep out the rabble!
• Hurry, close the door!

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Congo the dog Princeton, NJ
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The Story of Congo

• Congo attacked a man (unprovoked) and is
  scheduled to be put to death
• State Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen has introduced
  legislation, which he calls Congos Law, that
  could spare the dogs life.
• Thousands of people from Princeton and elsewhere
  around New Jersey and the U.S. are petitioning
  the governor for a pardon

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The VictimGiovanni Riveraundocumented
immigrant landscaper from Honduras(photo taken
after the attack)
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Is Cohens bill an example of racism?

• Mr. Rivera received 250K from insurance co.
  after bill was introduced
• - Five million dog bites annually
• - 800,000 need medical attention (26 average
  deaths)
• What if the dog had bitten a white plumber?
  Would an assemblyman have sponsored a bill?
• What if the dog had bitten a little girl of any
  ethnoracial background who was an American?

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Rant on Illegal Immigrants
Viewed over 172,000 times since March 2006
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Response to this rant

• The reason Mexico is such a shithole is because
  it's populace are cowardly selfish lowlife's that
  care for nothing but themselves! They have NOT
  ONE man of honor in the whole cesspool of a
  nation! Mexicans are scum, racists, cowardly,
  filthy, illiterate peasant scum. Wall them off
  and let them feast upon themselves! DIE WETBACKS

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Response to this rant

• great videoFUCK THESE FILTHY SUBHUMAN
  SHITSKINNED MEXCREMENT VERMIN.they make the
  nigger look like advanced

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These are roughly the same rates as 90-130 years
ago when European immigration peaked.
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3. IMMIGRATION OCCURS IN WAVES
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The Case of Hazelton

• Rapid transformation that occurs when one group
  moves into a region in large numbers
• - local communities often pay the cost
• Hazelton town council passed resolution making it
  illegal to do business with illegal immigrants
• The anti-immigrant Hazelton law

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What should the Federal Government of the U.S.
do?

• Immigration is not a political issue. It is a
  black and white issue about enforcing the law.
  -- Lou Dobbs
• The Federal Government is considering larger
  issues than the needs of local communities. --
  ACLA of PA

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Arizona Illegal Immigration Mandate

• State and local police agencies must determine if
  people in Arizona are in the U.S. illegally
• base stops on reasonable suspicion
• arrest people without legal status or who cannot
  prove that they are legal

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4. MIGRATION OFTEN LEADS TO CONFLICT
Why cant we all just get along?
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The KKK and immigration (in two minutes)
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From a MySpace Forum thread about Mexicans who
are too lazy to speak English

• I'm living in Sweden right now, and I can get by
  just fine with speaking English as everyone (well
  most) speak English. The point is to have the
  courtesy to learn the language of the country you
  reside in. It does piss me off to see all the
  damn Mexicans not make a single attempt to learn
  English, instead they want it fed to them as
  simple as possible. Learn the fucking language,
  take all the god damn signs in Spanish down and
  make them learn.

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And that means you!
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THE TRUE COSTS OFLegal Immigrationvs.Illega
l Immigration
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Illegal Immigration is Perceived to be Costly

• COSTS

• BENEFITS

• Border Patrol Police INS ICE
• Education and Social Services
• Health Services
• Contribute to lower wages for nationalized workers

• Taxes paid by immigrant workers who rarely see
  the benefits
• Fed, State, Local
• Social Security
• Workers Comp
• Contribute to lower wages (good for business)
• Money sent home is a social safety net for poor
  countries (i.e., foreign aid)

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Black Immigrants do well
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Metropolitan economic growth appears to be
related to immigration in the past two decades
NYT April 16, 2010
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In more than half of the largest metro areas,
more immigrants are employed in mostly
higher-paid white collar jobs than lower paid
blue collar and service jobs
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5. IMMIGRATION LEADS TO DYMANIC TRANSFORMATION

• Who migrates?
• How do immigrants think?
• Why innovate?

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new immigrants have very strong commitments to
family and community

• Jorge Munoz serves dinners to day laborers in NYC

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Check out the innovations from young men of
Guyanese and Trinidadian background whose
families have emigrated to Queens, NY.This is
popular back in their homelands.Talk about
innovation..
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These are mobile stereos tricked out with bass
woofers, amplifiers, and speakers. And theyre
loud5000 watts and 150 decibels!
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Note the training wheels because of the weight of
the equipment including car batteries.
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Heres the rear end view of that last bicycle.
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Out for a cruise in the streets of Queens.
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the solution
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Consider the words of Cal Thomas, a columnist
with Tribune Media Services, in an editorial
titled Round Illegal Immigrants Up, Move Them
Out. It appeared in newspapers around the
country on November 2, 2001.
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The United States has been the
breadbasket to the world and has welcomed the
world here. We have, and are, forgiving debt and
handing out foreign aid like Scroogethough we
have never been Scrooge-like in our generosity.
Weve enriched Arab nations by buying their oil
its not our fault that they have failed to use
those resources to better the lives of their
people. Now we learn that many countries hate us
because their political and religious leaders
need an enemy to deflect attention from the
economicmisery at homefor which they are
largely responsible.
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A bigger threat than terrorism and
anthrax is the huge number of illegal aliens in
this country the U.S. Census Bureau estimates
that there are 8 million of them and the Bush
administration should order a massive roundup,
deporting illegals to their countries of
origin.If policy remains unchanged, at least 13
million legal and illegal immigrants will likely
settle in the U.S. over the next 10 years. By
absorbing so many legal and illegal aliens,
America has lost something of the uniqueness that
attracts immigrants.
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Weve allowed these immigrants to form
their own societies among us, rather than embrace
American history, American traditions and
American values. Our national mottoout of many,
onehas become out of one, many. No nation can
survive if it loses its identity, and were
losing ours. While reversing this downward
process may take some time (and some will),
deporting those who dont belong here will have
the immediate benefit of ridding us of some
terrorists and their cells. Then we should
develop a new immigration policy that puts
America first.