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Why Obama's Decision To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth Is Good For The Economy
ProudProgressive
2012/06/15 15:52:08
Why Obama's Decision To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth Is Good For The Economy
By Travis Waldron
Jun 15, 2012
President Obama will announce a new immigration policy today that will allow some undocumented youths to avoid deportation and receive work permits to remain in the United States. Students in the U.S. who are in deportation proceedings or those who would have qualified for the DREAM Act and have yet to come forward to Department of Homeland Security officials will not be deported and will be allowed to work in the United States.
Though exact details of the plan are still unclear, it could benefit as many as one million undocumented students living in the country, and it will almost certainly have tangible benefits for the long-term health of the American economy.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the DREAM Act — which Republicans blocked in 2010 — would increase federal revenues by $1.7 billion over the next 10 years, reducing federal deficits by $2.2 billion over that time. DREAM-eligible students would generate between $1.4 and $3.6 trillion in taxable income over the course of their working lives, according to a study by UCLA's North American Integration and Development Center.
DREAM-eligible youth could also help fill the 16 million shortfall of college-educated workers that is expected to hit the U.S. by 2025, and with 31.5 percent of science and engineering graduates coming from Latino backgrounds, Obama's decision could add 252,000 new scientists, engineers, and technical workers to the nation's dwindling supply in those fields.
The decision will help raise wages for American workers too. "As long as a cheap, compliant pool of undocumented labor is available, employers have every reason to take advantage of the situation, keeping wages as low as possible," Cristina Jimenez wrote in the American Prospect in 2010. "Only when undocumented immigrants have the ability to exercise complete workplace rights will they help exert upward pressure on wages and labor standards that will benefit other workers."
These benefits are obvious even to leading Republicans. "The economy will be better when that [undocumented] kid is able to fully realize his potential and break the pattern of his parent's illegal activity," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said in 2010. Obama's decision isn't just good because it protects young adults who have spent most of their lives establishing homes in the United States, it's good because it will help our struggling economy too.
By Travis Waldron
Jun 15, 2012
President Obama will announce a new immigration policy today that will allow some undocumented youths to avoid deportation and receive work permits to remain in the United States. Students in the U.S. who are in deportation proceedings or those who would have qualified for the DREAM Act and have yet to come forward to Department of Homeland Security officials will not be deported and will be allowed to work in the United States.
Though exact details of the plan are still unclear, it could benefit as many as one million undocumented students living in the country, and it will almost certainly have tangible benefits for the long-term health of the American economy.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the DREAM Act — which Republicans blocked in 2010 — would increase federal revenues by $1.7 billion over the next 10 years, reducing federal deficits by $2.2 billion over that time. DREAM-eligible students would generate between $1.4 and $3.6 trillion in taxable income over the course of their working lives, according to a study by UCLA's North American Integration and Development Center.
DREAM-eligible youth could also help fill the 16 million shortfall of college-educated workers that is expected to hit the U.S. by 2025, and with 31.5 percent of science and engineering graduates coming from Latino backgrounds, Obama's decision could add 252,000 new scientists, engineers, and technical workers to the nation's dwindling supply in those fields.
The decision will help raise wages for American workers too. "As long as a cheap, compliant pool of undocumented labor is available, employers have every reason to take advantage of the situation, keeping wages as low as possible," Cristina Jimenez wrote in the American Prospect in 2010. "Only when undocumented immigrants have the ability to exercise complete workplace rights will they help exert upward pressure on wages and labor standards that will benefit other workers."
These benefits are obvious even to leading Republicans. "The economy will be better when that [undocumented] kid is able to fully realize his potential and break the pattern of his parent's illegal activity," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said in 2010. Obama's decision isn't just good because it protects young adults who have spent most of their lives establishing homes in the United States, it's good because it will help our struggling economy too.
Read More: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/15/500354...
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Kanaka Rican - Now's the ti... 2012/06/15 16:09:52
+7So, let’s eliminate the process….eliminate Congress….
WE LIVE IN A REPUBLIC! THIS IS NOT A DICTATORSHIP!
OMG......Obama MUST GO!
How about all the LEGAL citizens of LEGAL parents who WON'T go to college and have jobs because of these "DREAM-eligible students?" The DREAM Act was defeated, stop giving it CPR.
A study says these "eligible" people will generate $1.4-$3.6 Trillion in taxable income. Wouldn't the same LEGAL people generate the same income?
A procedure exists for illegals to become legal: Leave, pay a fee, and reenter legally. Sayonara, see you in 6 months, don't let the border hit you in the ass on the way out.
Alternatively, enlist for 2 years and pay back some of the money you've enjoyed at legal citizens' expense FIRST.
And what about the teeny fact that the President of the U.S. is ignoring and side-stepping the law he has sworn to uphold? Doesn't matter? YES, IT DOES!!!
Did you not bother to read your own article? I can't believe you'd agree with the President on anything.
Only an ignorant liberal or progressive can make 1.7 billion in revenues equal 2.2 billion in deficit reduction. It's smoke and mirrors math that ASSUMES the 1.7 billion would actually be applied to debt in which case if it was there would be a 2.2 billion savings because of interest payments.
The problem with this is that democrats have never applied any increase in tax revenue to the debt they strictly use it to fund and run up more debt with ignorant ass projects that benefit no one but themselves, family members, and donors. The other lie that isnt being told is that most likely every freaking dime of the 1.7 billion and then some more is refunded to these illegals because they are poor and suck up millions more in welfare and illegal child credits taken for their kids living in Mexico.
The B.S. is getting deep and Obama and the libtards are in panic mode as evidenced by Obama illegal ass kissing just announced.
WE LIVE IN A REPUBLIC! THIS IS NOT A DICTATORSHIP!
OMG......Obama MUST GO!
"The poll showed that 66% of all registered voters support giving undocumented immigrants the latitude to remain in the country and eventually qualify for citizenship on the condition that they meet requirements including learning English, paying back taxes, and pass background checks. Even more surprising, 57% of Republicans surveyed in the December poll supported a path to citizenship under the same requirements."
This is why the Muslim,along with the Socialist Party is deliberately re-engineering the country’s demographics. Caucasian Americans are being ethnically cleansed through displacement. Treason is too mild a word for it. Would you agree Comrade?
Time Cover Promotes the Illegal Alien Invasion.
rich - class warfare
white - racial warfare
male - gender warfare
Christians - religious warfare
And you're right. it is a war. A war launched on January 20, 1981 by Ronald Reagan that's been raging for the last 30 years. A war to deprive women of their right to control their own bodies and to have access to the medical care they need. A war to roll back the Civil Rights Act and every other antidiscrimination law we've passed in the last century because "we have a right to discriminate if we want to". A war to destroy the American middle class by breaking the unions that built the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, diverting more and more of the nation's wealth into fewer and fewer hands, forcing people to work for pennies in factories that we can't have any safety regulations for because that's "big government taking over", and even a war to get into your bedroom to make sure that the person you're sleeping with has the "right" anatomy.
http://peoplesworld.org/dream...
"The poll showed that 66% of all registered voters support giving undocumented immigrants the latitude to remain in the country and eventually qualify for citizenship on the condition that they meet requirements including learning English, paying back taxes, and pass background checks. Even more surprising, 57% of Republicans surveyed in the December poll supported a path to citizenship under the same requirements."
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs...
"The poll showed that 66% of all registered voters support giving undocumented immigrants the latitude to remain in the country and eventually qualify for citizenship on the condition that they meet requirements including learning English, paying back taxes, and pass background checks. Even more surprising, 57% of Republicans surveyed in the December poll supported a path to citizenship under the same requirements."
First the churches, then women, then Bain Capital, then gays, and now this. Not going to work P.P. that Muslim is throwing everything up against the wall, hoping something's gonna stick. He's getting slammed hard in the media over this speech yesterday. And now, don't deport the young illegals; give 'em work permits. Wonder what that will do to the unemployment number? LOL...Voters ARE Paying Attention.
By the way, do you know the difference between Communists and Modern American Liberals?
The Communists support their military and protect their borders. Other than that, there is NO difference.
http://www.illegalimmigration...
http://www.fairus.org/facts/p...
So tell me, how does allowing illegal immigrants take jobs from citizens NOT undermine the rights of citizens?
How does 0bama breaking the laws not do this as well?
http://www.americanthinker.co...
Most people have no idea whatsoever how wildly expensive deportation is. Let's start with the cost. According to the Department of Homeland Security, in 2010 alone it spent roughly $9.2 billion to deport 392,000 individuals. That comes out to about $23,500 per person. Why so expensive? Over half came here by plane and must be returned the same way.
Assuming that the cost of rounding up 11-20 million is scalable (which is almost certainly not the case), it would cost about $263 billion to deport all illegal immigrants. That is about twice what we are currently spending annually in Afghanistan. In actuality, the cost would be much higher, because trying to ramp up to arrest and deport 11 million in a short time would be enormously difficult.
So, what to do with them? They can continue to hide out and work minimum jobs, or we can put them on a path to citizenship where they get to pay into Social Security and Medicare just like everyone else.
But that old cry about just rounding them all up smacks of sheer ignorance.
Could you at least tell us how devaluing our money is NOT a defacto tax increase? http://www.forbes.com/sites/c... Who cares if the stock market indexes are going when the value of the dollar is going down?
Claiming that the rate of government spending is at its lowest in 30 years is just a lie!
http://hotair.com/archives/20...