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United States Immigration policy became a hot topic in the spring of 2006 (there's some specific history which I don't have time to research -- there was a bill introduced (by GOP?) which would have apparently made it very difficult for existing immigrant workers; this led to rallies nationwide in support of said workers and against said bill, etc...).

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Opinion

Will someone please explain to me (a) what business we have, as a nation composed almost entirely of immigrants, setting restrictions on which other countries we will allow to contribute to our population, and (b) in what way immigrants from any particular country or ethnic group have ever been a problem, once they arrived? --Woozle 15:31, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

Positions

The Concord Party
Reason: "Immigration Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever"

Humor

Migraphobia by Mark Fiore

Data

US Census Bureau: Nativity of the Population and Place of Birth of the Native Population: 1850 to 1990

Links

2006-12-23 Illegal Alien Meat Packing Plant Raids Raise Wages: the so-far-largest raid of illegal alien employees in the US signals both a serious crackdown on employment of illegal aliens and raises questions about the oft-cited premise that illegals do jobs nobody else is willing to do: lines were out the door for those seeking to replace the deported workers, and most of the applicants were described as "caucasian". The blog entry's analysis of this information, however, seems a little reflexive and shallow.
2006-06-25 What Is This "Crime," Really?: Orson Scott Card criticizes one of the main conservative arguments against US immigration on the grounds that it displays excessive moral absolutism
2006-06-22 A Busy School for Border Patrol in New Mexico
2006-05-16
- Chertoff: National Guard on the Border Would Be "Horribly Over-Expensive and Very Difficult" by Justin Rood
- The right-wing goes haywire on immigration by Melissa McEwan at 1:10 PM
- Bush speaks on immigration by Melissa McEwan at 3:15 PM

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 * US Census Bureau: [http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/tab01.html Nativity of the Population and Place of Birth of the Native Population: 1850 to 1990]
 ==Links==
+* '''2006-12-23''' [http://www.parapundit.com/archives/003974.html Illegal Alien Meat Packing Plant Raids Raise Wages]: the so-far-largest raid of illegal alien employees in the US signals both a serious crackdown on employment of illegal aliens and raises questions about the oft-cited premise that illegals do jobs nobody else is willing to do: lines were out the door for those seeking to replace the deported workers, and most of the applicants were described as "caucasian". The blog entry's analysis of this information, however, seems a little reflexive and shallow.
 * '''2006-06-25''' [http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2006-06-25-1.html What Is This "Crime," Really?]: [[Orson Scott Card]] criticizes one of the main [[conservative]] arguments against [[US immigration]] on the grounds that it displays excessive [[moral absolutism]]
 * '''2006-06-22''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/us/24patrol.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fB%2fBush%2c%20George%20W%2e&oref=slogin A Busy School for Border Patrol in New Mexico]