Immigrants

Sewell Chan has just published an article in the New York Times detailing the results of the $2 million study, which focused on five immigrant groups in the New York Area: "Dominicans, Chinese, Russian Jews, South Americans consisting of Colombians, Ecuadoreans and Peruvians and West Indians, defined as immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean, including Belize and Guyana." ❋ Unknown (2008)

CARDENAS: It's a painful term, Lou, and it's something that we try to stay away from, but, to tell you honestly, the reality here in Iowa is that it's not so much what you call immigrants, but actually who immigrants are, and who we are and what we see here in Iowa is that immigrants are ... ❋ Unknown (2004)

Many new poor latin immigrants move into ethnic enclaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lowball estimate of the tax-and-transfer estimate of low skilled immigrants is 90 billion per year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Scapegoating immigrants is easy, actually solving our environmental problems is a lot more complicated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition, any estimate of illegal immigrants is just that, an estimate that surely is minimized. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Michelle Chen at the Colorlines Blog points out that excluding undocumented immigrants from the census is usually proposed by nativists who care more about making “a politically invisible population disappear,” than rational policy-making. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The health care cost for illegal immigrants is best shared by legalizing the illegals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or that we incur some obligation if the cost of +X immigrants is a mere $Y (measured as welfare payouts, standard of living decrease, or whatever). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The right wing has been waging an aggressive campaign to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census count. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These considerations alone should be reason to exclude low-IQ immigrants from the US. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This whole obsession with illegal immigrants is a dangerous distraction from the necessity to secure our border. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So basically you are saying latin immigrants are destroying land values and the subsequent result of such destruction is higher prices? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ability of Britain to maintain its large welfare state in the face of a large influx of immigrants is what that Labour supporter is concerned about. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OBAMA: As I said before, the best way to deal with undocumented immigrants is to make them documented. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think the best idea I have heard for limiting the number of immigrants is to place a tax on visas or work permits. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Overall, nearly one in three immigrants is an illegal alien. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As to the "keeping Mexico from liberalizing its economy," if we allow in immigrants, how is Cuba coming? ❋ Unknown (2009)