Obama’s “recovery” and the social crisis in America … the recovery that NEVER was!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/08/america-under-obamas-crony-capitalism.html
even now Obama and the Democrat party are conspiring to hand millions more jobs to illegals and billions more in welfare to LA RAZA and their bankster paymasters!
“Wealth Inequality in America,” the staggering
realities of Obamanomics and the destruction of
the American middle class
LA RAZA
NANCY PELOSI’S STATE IS NOW A COLONY OF MEXICO. THE STATE HANDS OUT $25 BILLION
IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS AND HALF THE MURDERS ARE BY MEX GANGS!
FOR PELOSI,
IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING THE DEM PARTY BASE WITH LOOTING MEXICANS!
LA RAZA-OCCUPATION and LOOTING in MEXIFORNIA…. shocking!
Californians bear an enormous fiscal
burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million
residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services
for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of
about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
Opinion
California
must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The
state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits,
deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize
'sanctuary' cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
Tuesday, 29 July 2014 13:28 Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
Sage Foundation: Wealth "Inequality" Will Continue to Worsen
Written by Bob
Adelmann
In another so-called research study about wealth inequality, the liberal think-tank Sage Foundation said in June that while the super-rich have fully recovered from the Great Recession, the vast majority of Americans have not. Specifically their report shows that median household net worth “was $32,000 lower in 2013 than it was 10 years earlier,” a decline of 36 percent. It concluded:
Through at least 2013,
there are very few signs of significant recovery from the losses in wealth
experienced by American families during the Great Recession. Declines in net
worth from 2007 to 2009 were large, and the declines continued through 2013.
These wealth losses,
however, were not distributed equally.… Wealth inequality increased
significantly from 2003 through 2013; by some metrics inequality roughly
doubled.
By using the word
“inequality” rather than the better descriptor “difference,” it is clear that
Sage is involved in the political debate over how this happened, who’s
responsible, and what can be done “to fix it.” While Sage shied away from
remedies, the New York Times, in reviewing the study, was sure that
something is very wrong:
The reasons for these
declines are complex and controversial, but one point seems clear: When only a
few people are winning and more than half the population is losing, surely
something is amiss.
This is the current
politically correct siren song of greed, avarice, envy, and class warfare that
has captured the attention of many on the Left in their attempt to gin up
sufficient concern and voter angst for remedies ranging from taxing the rich to
ever higher transfers of their wealth to the needy. Naturally those higher
taxes would also have to be levied on the middle class, simply because there
aren’t enough rich people around to fund those proposed transfers.
Last October,
following his receipt of the Nobel prize for economics, Yale professor Robert
Schiller said, “The most important problem that we are facing now today, I
think, is rising inequality in the United States.” Just two months later Robert
Reich, former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, called economic
inequality “a threat to our way of life.”
An anonymous YouTube
video, “Wealth Inequality in America,” suddenly appeared early last year and
has gone viral, with more than 15 million views. A brief screen shot of
sources, however, reveals the usual suspects: CNN, Mother Jones, and
ThinkProgress.com. It was learned later that much if not most of the
statistical analysis behind that video came from Sage as well.
Responses to the
current rush to judgment have been provided by others looking at the same data
and coming to different conclusions. For instance, blogger Ironman at Political
Calculations, using Census Data as his source, showed in his December 2013 post
“that the amount of income inequality among U.S. individuals … has been
essentially flat [since 1960].” He explained:
The bottom line is
that the Census Bureau’s total money income data is the only valid source of
data that allows us to determine the impact that individual income earners have
within their families and households. It is the only data that can possibly
allow anyone to determine whether economic or social changes are behind the
trends occurring … over time.
Using other sources of
data that do not allow the impact of individuals to be measured or isolated
without acknowledging its limited utility in making any legitimate
determination on the state of income equality within a population is the
equivalent of analytical malpractice.
Thomas Sowell isn’t
nearly as kind, accusing the data manipulators of having an agenda and skewing
the statistics to fit it. In January he wrote in Investors Business Daily:
Only by focusing on
the income brackets, instead of the actual people moving between those
brackets, have the intelligentsia been able verbally to create a “problem” for
which a “solution” is necessary.
They have created a
powerful vision of “classes” with “disparities” and “inequities” in income,
caused by “barriers” created by “society.” ...
The confusion between
statistical categories and flesh-and-blood human beings is compounded when
there is a confusion between income and wealth.
The cry of inequality,
whether it be “wealth” or “income,” intended to rally the masses around more
taxes on the wealthy and more government transfers, appears to be falling on
deaf ears. In the same study that formed the basis for the YouTube video that
went viral last year, the authors blame the lack of response to the sales job
(by CNN, ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, Schiller, and Reich — and others)
on Americans who really don’t care. They wrote:
Americans exhibit a
general disconnect between their attitudes toward economic inequality and their
self-interest and public policy preferences, suggesting that even given
increased awareness of the gap between ideal and actual wealth distributions,
Americans may remain unlikely to advocate for policies that would narrow this
gap.
That’s how a gaggle of
left-wing college professors express their disgust and frustration that their
campaign of propaganda, using slanted statistics and endlessly promoted by a
media with an agenda, just isn’t working.
A graduate of Cornell University and a
former investment advisor, Bob is a regular contributor to The
New American magazine and blogs frequently at www.LightFromTheRight.com,
primarily on economics and politics. He can be reached at badelmann@thenewamerican.com
.
OBAMANOMICS
FROM
THE HOPE & CHANGE & LOOTING” BY CRONIES CLOWN
THE
ENTIRE REASON BORDERS ARE SABOTAGED IS TO INVITE ENDLESS HORDES OF ILLEGALS
INTO OUR COUNTRY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE
TAX BILLS FOR THEIR LOOTING, WELFARE, ANCHOR BABIES AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
The US ruling elite has reached a historical dead end. It
staggers from crisis to crisis, trying to put out fires with gasoline. This
pragmatic, shortsighted and parasitic approach to the crisis of the US economy
is expressive of the basic physiognomy of the financial elite. This is a social
layer that has amassed its wealth not through productive activity, but through
the looting of society: raiding pension funds, slashing wages, shutting down
industrial facilities and laying off workers.
OBAMAnomics: THE WALL STREET-WRITTEN
SCAM HE PERPETRATES ON WALL STREET’S VICTIMS
OBAMANnomics:
HOW HIS CRONY BANKSTERS LOOTED AMERICAN AND WERE PAID MASSIVE BONUSES FOR DOING
SO!
UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS
OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!
“At
the hearing, Dr. Rakesh Kochar, Associate Director for Research at the Pew
Hispanic Center, testified that in the year following the official end of the
recession (June 2009), foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while
native-born workers lost an additional 1.2 million jobs.”
"We
have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal
immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said.
"As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to
immigrants."
Mr.
Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years
of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and
authorizes them to work in the United States.
Some
Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates
his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.
SOARING WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS, they
also get our jobs AND SOARING POVERTY FOR AMERICANS who still get the tax bills
for LA RAZA’S MEX WELFARE STATE IN our open borders.
The report demonstrates how
nearly every section of society, except for the rich and super-rich, has seen a
massive loss in wealth since 2003.
SOARING WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS on the
gringos’ backs!
BARACK OBAMA and the LA RAZA “THE
RACE” MEXICAN WELFARE STATE HE EXPANDED IN AMERICA’S OPEN and UNDEFENDED
BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
ROBERT RECTOR: THE COST OF UNFETTERED IMMIGRATION – AMERICAN
INVADED, OCCUPIED AND LOOTED BY ILLEGALS
THE RISE OF
BARACK OBAMA and the FALL of AMERICA
HOW A
SOCIOPATH CONNED A NATION CALLING IT “HOPE & CHANGE” AND THEN BECAME GEORGE
BUSH’S THIRD & FORTH TERMS ON STEROIDS.
…….
there was a reason why the banksters invested so many bribes in BARACK OBAMA
even before his first term!
No bank or executive has been criminally charged in relation to
these crimes.
It is impossible to fully
calculate the human suffering that has resulted from these crimes. Since 2003,
a typical US household has lost 36 percent of its wealth, while the poorest
quarter of households have lost 68 percent of their wealth during the same
period.
HOW BARACK OBAMA
HELPED WALL STREET LOOT AMERICA AND HANDED MILLIONS OF JOBS OVER TO VOTING
ILLEGALS:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-barack-obama-destroyed-america-for.html
CRONY OBAMANOMICS – HOW OBAMA SQUANDERED AMERICA FOR HIS LOOTING WALL STREET BANKSTERS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-reality-of-obamas-crony-capitalism.html
$3.39T Quantitative Explosion: Fed Owns More
Treasuries and MBSs Than Publicly Held Debt Amassed From Washington Through Clinton.
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
TECH
GIANT APPLE COMPUTER SAYS HELL NO TO PAYING TAXES and HELL NO TO HIRING
AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND INDIANS COMING!
Tech firms fight hiring rules in
immigration bill…. NO AMERICANS NEED APPLY!!!
Americans would "be shocked to know that most
of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.
SOARING
POVERTY for AMERICANS …. is it yet time to end MEXICO’S looting in our borders?
AS HE HANDS BILLIONS OVER TO MUSLIM
DICTATORS AND BUILD THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” MEX WELFARE STATE OFF OUR BACK IN
OUR OWN BORDERS, OBAMANOMICS HAS REDUCED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS INTO POVERTY!
BLANKET
AMNESTY is at hand…. 40 million illegals occupying America can now vote
(legally) for even more.
“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration
and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and
the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't
feel safe in their communities.” - AZ Gov. Jan Brewer
BANKS
and GEITHNER ….He was the banksters' HOPE & NO CHANGE man in the white
house!
CRONY CAPITALISM: HOW
OBAMA AND HIS CRONY BANKSTERS LOOTED AMERICA – It’s a work still in progress!
As he puts it, “We did save the economy, but we
lost the country doing it.” Geithner adds, “Conventional wisdom still holds
that we abandoned Main Street to protect Wall Street.”
THE OBAM MELTDOWN is here:
OBAMANnomics: HOW HIS CRONY BANKSTERS LOOTED AMERICAN AND
WERE PAID MASSIVE BONUSES FOR DOING SO!
The larger fear is that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking voters much as the Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy.
OBAMA and his CRONIES BANKRUPT AMERICA… then send the bills for their LOOTING to the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/02/obama-bankrupts-america-while-his_19.html
More broadly, the stock market tremors reflect growing concern within the ruling class that share values, which have doubled, and in some cases tripled, since their 2009 lows, are on the verge of another historic collapse.OBAMA and his CRONIES BANKRUPT AMERICA… then send the bills for their LOOTING to the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/02/obama-bankrupts-america-while-his_19.html
The financial bubble economy
28 July 2014
All three major US stock indexes fell Friday, capping the largest weekly decline in US stock markets in nearly two months. The catalyst for Friday’s sell-off was a very weak series of sales figures and projections from three corporations tied to consumer spending: Amazon, the largest online retailer; Wal-Mart, the largest brick-and-mortar retailer; and Visa, the credit and debit card transaction company.More broadly, the stock market tremors reflect growing concern within the ruling class that share values, which have doubled, and in some cases tripled, since their 2009 lows, are on the verge of another historic collapse.
The open secret of the US economy is that the extraordinary rise in the stock markets is entirely disconnected from the process of production. While US economic growth was only 1.8 percent last year, below the average of the previous three years, the S&P 500 stock index shot up more than 20 percent. In the first quarter of this year, as the economy contracted at a rate of nearly three percent, all three US stock indexes continued to rise.
The stock market rally is based on two interconnected elements: the systematic transfer of wealth from the working class to the financial elite, and the provision of an essentially unlimited flow of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve.
The stock market bubble has facilitated mergers and acquisitions designed to inflate corporate stock prices by mass layoffs and cost cutting, further choking off economic growth. Such mergers and acquisitions are up by some 50 percent over the past year. A case in point was Microsoft’s announcement this month of 18,000 worldwide layoffs in the aftermath of its $7 billion acquisition of Nokia’s mobile division.
Corporate profits as a share of US GDP were higher last year than any year on records going back to the late 1940s. A measure of the speculative fever that has once again gripped corporate America: companies are using these profits not for investment, but rather to swell executive pay, raise dividends, and buy back their own stocks. Stock buybacks reached their second-highest level on record in the first quarter of this year, behind only the second quarter of 2007, just before the financial meltdown.
The fact that the stock market rally is clearly unstable has generated murmurs of concern from some quarters. Earlier this month, Fitch Ratings Agency warned of an “increasing anxiety among investors that valuations reflect too much money chasing too few income-producing assets.” The rating agency added, “Investors feel they have little choice but to invest in whatever comes to market, despite the continuing fall in yields and coupons.”
One commentator warned this month in the New York Times of an “Everything Bubble” in which “there are very few unambiguously cheap assets.” These warnings echoed concerns raised by the Bank of International Settlements, which concluded late last month that “it is hard to avoid the sense of a puzzling disconnect between the markets’ buoyancy and underlying economic developments.”
The most categorical warning comes from John P. Hussman, a former University of Michigan professor and current investment fund manager who published a memo this week entitled, “Yes, This Is An Equity Bubble.” He concluded, “Make no mistake – this is an equity bubble, and a highly advanced one. On the most historically reliable measures, it is easily beyond 1972 and 1987, beyond 1929 and 2007, and is now within about 15% of the 2000 extreme.” He concludes, “The Federal Reserve can certainly postpone the collapse of this bubble, but only by making the eventual outcome that much worse.”
Soaring corporate profits and stock values have accompanied an enormous decline in social conditions for the vast majority of the US population. According to one recent study, the inflation-adjusted net worth of a typical US household has declined by 36 percent between 2003 and 2014. Median household income in the US plummeted by 8.3 percent between 2007 and 2012, and the number of people using food stamps has increased by 70 percent since 2008.
The enormous social retrogression of American society is summed up in one statistic: one in four children in the United States live below the official poverty line, while one in five are at risk of going hungry.
The 2008 collapse nearly brought down the entire world financial system and sparked a global recession, with no recovery. The Fed has lowered interest rates to essentially zero, where they have stayed for nearly six years, allowing banks access to cash for free. Through a variety of asset purchasing programs, the Fed has tripled the size of its balance sheet since 2008. This policy has been mimicked internationally, coupled with ever more brutal austerity measures directed at the working class.
This game cannot go on forever. Ultimately, the valuations of financial assets must come crashing down. The consequences of the coming crash will be even more dramatic than those of the 2008 financial meltdown.
The US ruling elite has reached a historical dead end. It staggers from crisis to crisis, trying to put out fires with gasoline. This pragmatic, shortsighted and parasitic approach to the crisis of the US economy is expressive of the basic physiognomy of the financial elite. This is a social layer that has amassed its wealth not through productive activity, but through the looting of society: raiding pension funds, slashing wages, shutting down industrial facilities and laying off workers.
This internal socioeconomic crisis of American capitalism is a significant factor in US foreign policy, the extraordinary recklessness with which the ruling class and its representatives in the political and media establishment stoke conflict all over the world.
Facing an economic and political disaster at home, the US ruling elite seeks through war a desperate means to shore up its position in the global economy and deflect social anger at home into wars and interventions abroad. Each stage of the economic crisis has been accompanied by an every greater paroxysm of imperialist violence.
The policy of the American ruling class is, in a profound sense, insane. However, it is a socially conditioned insanity, an insanity that expresses a bankrupt economic system and a social order on the eve of revolution.
Andre Damon
AMERICA – THE BILLIONAIRES, WALL STREET and POLITICIAN LOOTED COUNTRY WHERE NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have stagnated.”THE WAY OUR GOVERNMENT AVOID THE BELOW IS WITH OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS TO PERMIT HORDES OF ILLEGALS TO JUMP OUR BORDERS AND JOBS… then the American middle class gets the tax bills for the staggering cost of Mexico’s looting.
There are ample resources to guarantee every worker and young person a job at decent pay, a high quality education, decent housing and nutrition, access to culture, and a secure retirement—the basic social rights which every person should enjoy.
The stock market bonanza
6 March 2013
Tuesday, four days after President Barack Obama signed the budget sequestration order unleashing brutal cuts in social programs, there was general jubilation in the media as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed through its previous high, dating from 2007.
OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA: For Whom???
OBAMA, THE BANKSTER OWNED LA RAZA DEM
“The response of the administration was to
rush to the defense of the banks. Even before
coming to power, Obama expressed his
unconditional support for the bailouts, which
he subsequently expanded. He assembled an
administration dominated by the interests of
finance capital, symbolized by economic
adviser Lawrence Summers and Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
An immense and unbridgeable chasm exists between the conditions of life for masses of people—suffering from the greatest economic and social crisis since the 1930s—and a ruling class whose wealth is almost entirely divorced from productive activity in the real economy.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-obama-doctrine-open-borders-and-non.html
Income
inequality grows four times faster under
Obama than Bush …. we bankroll Mexico's welfare state in our borders as the number of
Americans (Legals) sink into poverty! Illegals also get all the jobs!
The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great
Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently
reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a
striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present
crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity
program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social
inequality.
SOARING POVERTY IN AMERICA – SOARING PROFITS FOR WALL STREET
CRONY CAPITALISM: HOW OBAMA KEPT HIS PROMISE TO MAKE THE
RICH RICHER AND VOTING ILLEGALS GET OUR JOBS, WELFARE AND LA RAZA SUPREMACY OFF
THE GRINGOS’ BACKS.
OBAMANOMICS AT WORK:
H-1B VISAS – THE CONSPIRACY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED WITH
ENDLESS BOATLOADS OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED TO LOOT OUR JOBS
DEATH OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS – A NATION LOOTED BY WALL
STREET AND NOW RENTING…. and the rents are soaring!
To some, U.S. immigration fight is financial
WASHINGTON - Tamyra Murray didn't always organize protests against illegal immigrants.
She obviously wasn't born a tea party activist, either.
What she was, until a few years ago, was the owner of a plastering business.
The demise of her business and the birth of her political activism offers a solitary snapshot of the tea party movement, the populist rebellion rattling American politics. '
The immigration issue has pit the Republican Party's Wall Street-friendly leadership against grassroots activists like Murray, who are dead-set against any immigration reform that offers a form of amnesty to illegal migrants.
"We Americans, regular citizens, we've been struggling for the last few years," the Michigan woman said in an interview. "And they need to know what we are going through. And they're just going to cripple us even more by allowing this."
For her, the issue is personal: She blames illegal immigration for squeezing her out of business.
And she believes the big-business-aligned politicians in Washington either don't care, or are beholden to chamber-of-commerce-type donors who see immigration as a pool of cheap labour.
She said she used to make about $25-$30 an hour in her plastering work, and employed up to 15 people. But it became increasingly difficult to compete, she said, against companies hiring illegal migrants who worked for a fraction of that sum.
She said one competitor even joked about paying undocumented employees a few dollars an hour, while they slept on his property.
The final blow came during the recession when, she said, she was banking on a contract to plaster the walls in a new old-folks home to keep her afloat in an otherwise meagre year.
Murray said the general contractor declared he'd found someone willing to do the job for one-third of her bid price.
"(Their) price ... would have only covered labour and materials," she said. "I told the general contractor, 'The only way that company could do that job for that price would be to employ illegal labour.' And they laughed and said they didn't care."
Fast-forward six years, now active in a local tea party group, Murray has been organizing protests over the migrants arriving at the Mexican border. Many of them are children, escaping horrific gang violence.
But, Murray says, the United States can't take care of the whole world.
A few people have carried guns and rifles while protesting. Murray chuckles when asked about it, and says it's their right under the Second Amendment. She's been carrying a gun lately, too — because, she says, she's been receiving threats.
It's not just Republicans exercised over this issue.
Fred Bronson voted for Barack Obama in 2008. He's now disenchanted with the president and believes American workers have been sold out by a political class that does the bidding of big business.
The electrician is suing his former employer in a North Carolina court, attempting to make the argument that his equality guarantees under civil-rights law have been violated.
He blames illegal immigration for forcing down his salary by almost two-thirds, if you count inflation.
Bronson says he was making $19.75 an hour two decades ago, then gradually saw his pay drop to about $13 — which would have been $7.13 in 1990 dollars.
"I went in for a raise one time. The owner... looks up and he says, 'Listen, Freddie, I can hire two illegals for what I'm paying you,'" he said in an interview.
"It's hurting the Americans, it really is. The immigration's really killing us."
Bronson is representing himself, without a lawyer, and he admits it's been tough to keep up with all the legal procedures.
There may indeed be a link between immigration and salaries, according to some academic research.
But the phenomenon is playing out very differently in Canada, suggests one study.
Research by Harvard labour economist George Borjas and Abdurrahman Aydemir of Statistics Canada in 2007 found that a 10 per cent change in the labour supply affected wages by three to four per cent.
But they also found that the big long-term difference in Canada is that immigration actually reduced income inequality — while it did the opposite in the U.S. and widened the gap between rich and poor.
The researchers noted that Canadian immigrants tended to be higher-skilled, and therefore the pressure on wages occurred on higher income levels. In the U.S., the salary effects were felt by lower-paid workers.
One economist who specializes in income inequality, and also in immigration, cites a
couple of reasons for the difference in Canada.
One is the design of Canada's immigration programs, including the traditional points-based system, said the University of Ottawa's Miles Corak. The other is geography, he said.
"I suspect if Canada was much further south and was bordering Mexico it would be a different issue," Corak said.
He suggests one way the U.S. might address the problem — and the tea partiers won't like it.
Corak says amnesty for current illegal migrants would bring them into the normal labour market, give them the freedom to change jobs, and drive up their cost to employers.
But Murray offers a sarcastic laugh when she hears that suggestion. She points to the amnesty bill Ronald Reagan signed in 1986 and wonders why a repeat now would be expected to stem the tide of illegal immigrants.
It's the opposition of grassroots activists like Murray that has stopped the Republican leadership from bringing a comprehensive immigration-reform bill, which has already passed the Senate, up for a vote on the House floor.
There's one idea she doesn't laugh at, not even sarcastically.
And that's the argument from some of her opponents that the anti-illegal cause is at its core racist — a modern-day equivalent of the Know Nothing Movement and the Native American party, which in the 1840s and '50s blamed the U.S.'s problems on poor immigrants.
Murray calls such slurs a distraction from the debate.
"I have Latin American friends that came here legally," she said.
"They're my very dear friends. I don't have anything against any person that looks, or talks, different. To me, that doesn't mean anything. It's about breaking our laws to come and take advantage of what we have been working for all along."
By Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press
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