I think it is just a trick to get all the illegals to come forward. They are not being promised citizenship and they will be re assessed in two years time.
Willy
I think it is just a trick to get all the illegals to come forward. They are not being promised citizenship and they will be re assessed in two years time.
Willy
Willy, I think it is a trick too! I think this is his way of buying the Hispanic vote here for the upcoming election.
Just making a point here with people jumping on the knock the President bandwagon.
New Asian immigrants to US now surpass Hispanics
http://news.yahoo.com/asian-immigrants-us-now-surpass-hispanics-041526805.html (http://news.yahoo.com/asian-immigrants-us-now-surpass-hispanics-041526805.html)
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the influx of Asians moving to the U.S. has surpassed that of Hispanics, reflecting a slowdown in illegal immigration while American employers increase their demand for high-skilled workers.
An expansive study by the Pew Research Center details what it describes as "the rise of Asian-Americans," a highly diverse and fast-growing group making up nearly 6 percent of the U.S. population. Mostly foreign-born and naturalized citizens, their numbers have been boosted by increases in visas granted to specialized workers and to wealthy investors as the U.S. economy becomes driven less by manufacturing and more by technology.
"Too often the policy debates on immigration fixate on just one part — illegal immigration," said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political science professor at the University of California-Riverside and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "U.S. immigration is more diverse and broader than that, with policy that needs to focus also on high-skilled workers." "With net migration from Mexico now at zero, the role of Asian-Americans has become more important," he said.
About 430,000 Asians, or 36 percent of all new immigrants, arrived in the U.S. in 2010, according to the latest census data. That's compared to about 370,000, or 31 percent, who were Hispanic.
The Pew analysis, released Tuesday, said the tipping point for Asian immigrants likely occurred during 2009 as illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico sharply declined due to increased immigration enforcement and a dwindling supply of low-wage work in the weak U.S. economy. Many Mexicans already in the U.S. have also been heading back to their country, putting recent net migration at a standstill.
As recently as 2007, about 390,000 of new immigrants to the U.S. were Asian, compared to 540,000 who were Hispanic.
The shift to increased Asian immigration, particularly of people from India, China and South Korea, coincides with changes in U.S. immigration policy dating to the 1990s that began to favor wealthy and educated workers.
If the American government would cancel the election after the next president and use the money taken in for elections I think we could eliminate the debt this country has. We just don't need to do it right now. This president has spent more money in 3 years than all of the other 43 presidents combined.Why after the next one. Why not now? You would have a different one to how he currently has to work.
At this moment, our Prime Minister (the red-head with a big ass and a big mouth) is in the process of handing out mountains of money "to those who need it most"...that is, the lazy, incompetent, no-hopers, free-loading migrants, boat people and those in our society who don't want to work but want to have the State provide them with all the good things that those of us who do work, enjoy.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually
run out of other people’s money.”- Margaret Thatcher
Just heard a little piece on BBC News about how well Australia is doing in the current World Financial Crisis. Make way for a lot more immigrants David.
Mind you as a footnote to the news they said that Italian is no longer the second language used next to English. It is now Mandarin!!
Willy
Just now heard that another boat with maybe 200' asylum seekers' has sunk in Australian waters.
David E,
I deleted that mass of my vent of my original post. My existence is the reverse side of the coin. Where I live (Coeur d Alene, Idaho) we have the luxury of a 94% "White" population, all shapes & sizes, except thin & beautiful, quite a few snarly & angry, politically & religiously so. Tribal jaundicism is pervasive.
I do not do the American culturalisms of "white identification"; i.e., "republicanism", "country & western", "nascar", "budweiser beer", "mc donalds", "chevy pick- up trucks" (the bastards at gm got government bail out), "an assortment of whatever wacky christian religions suits your interests (including the Aryan Nations http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/aryan_nations.asp?xpicked=3&item=an (http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/aryan_nations.asp?xpicked=3&item=an) ).
I am culturally conservative, in the "old world" way. A year ago, I "accented" the qualities of my finite life with a beautiful Chinese woman. It does present a few public problems here, though nothing of epic proportions. I still have my "street smarts" from the south side of Chicago.
The crime here is "white". The welfare roles, "white", health issues "white"...all shapes & sizes as in obesity, many masked by underlying anger or just plain resignation. Many vulnerable to the likes of right wing wackos, like "fox news", blaming some distant threat, some distant peoples, for their ignorance, their stupidities.
By the way, The Mexicans that go "norte" do not have the opulence of wealth. They are a desperate lot...looking to survive and help their families. They take the jobs that white people will no longer do. Simple question, who works the orchards & fields?
with all due respect, John B
I actually agree with most of what said here. It is a matter of legalities. Laws are ambiguous. Lawyers delight. News services pablum. The common citizen dazed & confused..pissed. What is missing is the element of truth. I still firmly believe the perversions of truth are the politicos. They say anything you want to hear. You cast your vote. WTF happened?
Kind of funny, I saw an upcoming movie clip on Charlie Rose (outstanding commentator on PBS). In a generality, the clip talked about the public that thought America #1, of which like I think, 40% or 60% or so, believed in the existence of angels. We need to re- introduce "Civics" in school. Maybe we need angels to help the ignoranced see the guiding light.
Fox News should have an asterisk* on anything published. The rest of the media is questionable.
The thing I follow is the assault on Julian Assange. A lot of sphincter muscles tightened. If America pulls shit and gets extradition, I truly believe we are in trouble as a free and open democracy. In essence we are just a neurotic police state, the Constitution be damned.