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Old 10-05-2008, 01:28 PM
 
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In part, that will involve addressing economic tensions already emerging in today’s immigration debate. Even before the September credit meltdown, the immigration enforcement arms of the government were shifting their efforts away from the border per se and toward the “magnets” of illegal immigration — workplaces that hire undocumented workers en masse.

Without a clear path forward on the various measures in the comprehensive plan that Congress voted down last summer, the Department of Homeland Security elected to target the economic demand for immigrant labor within U.S. borders. Hence, the recent run of high-profile raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in the slaughterhouse industry of Postville, Iowa, and at a Laurel, Miss., plant making electrical equipment.

Now, however, with the specter of a long-term economic downturn, this improvised workplace-driven consensus on immigration enforcement may not hold. As small-business credit seizes up and unemployment increases, going after businesses providing jobs — no matter how poorly paid, underground or unsafe those jobs may be — is not playing well among most constituencies, apart from hard-line immigration opponents. Indeed, lobbyists and managers in other potentially vulnerable companies — such as high-tech concerns and seasonal industries — are already contending that they need access to specialized non-U.S. workers now more than ever.

Still, if the effort to secure the border first is receding somewhat from the immigration debate, it’s far from clear what package of proposals will take shape next. Many observers suggest that some of the measures that the 110th Congress did approve could come under renewed budgetary scrutiny as their mandates expire — such as the 670-mile stretch of concrete fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, which was supposed to be completed by the end of 2008, but now is more than $400 million over budget and just barely half-finished.



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Old 10-05-2008, 04:51 PM
 
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this is another reason that the bailout bill was so bad for the working american:

What's the best way to cure America's immigration problem? Forget the bailout and let the country slip into recession - at least that's what the newest data from the Census Bureau implies.
The information from the Census, coupled with an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center (a think tank, not a social club), suggests that the economic downturn, particularly the housing slump, coupled with greater enforcement actions on illegal immigration, has drastically reduced U.S. immigration rates.
According to the new Census report, the nation added about a half million immigrants in 2007, down from more than 1.8 million the year before. A major contributor to the lack of economic opportunities for immigrants stems from the the collapse of the housing market and the snowball effect it caused on the rest of the economy. The housing halt reduced the number of available construction jobs - the bread and butter employment sector for Latin American immigrants. As a result, there is less of a reason to come to the U.S. for work these days.

with this bailout funded by taxpayers and much of that money going to new construction will that encourage more illegal immigrants to enter the country? how will that be handled?
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