Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Truth About Immigration, the Border and Jobs

I hope you will all read this whole article, MANY good points are made here. - - Donna Poisl

By: David Dayen

Former half-term Governor Sarah Palin defended Arizona’s immigration law today. That sentence is about as much attention to her views as is deserved.

I would rather point to a series of new studies showing that the law was birthed in and supported by ignorance of the reality at the border and the facts behind immigration. First, on the border, where crime has not increased in any way, despite claims to the contrary. It’s not for nothing that the sheriff in that ridiculous John McCain “Complete the Danged Fence” commercial was from an interior Arizona county; the sheriffs at the border aren’t seeing a problem:
Click on the headline to read the examples and the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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