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Illegal Immigration’s a problem because white businesses owners still believe in cheap and free labor instead of fair wages.

A.) Ten Ways Immigrants Help Build and Strengthen Our Economy
JULY 12, 2012 AT 10:09 AM ET

Summary: Our American journey and our success would simply not be possible without the generations of immigrants who have come to our shores from every corner of the globe.

America is a nation of immigrants. Our American journey and our success would simply not be possible without the generations of immigrants who have come to our shores from every corner of the globe. It is helpful to take a moment to reflect on the important contributions by the generations of immigrants who have helped us build our economy, and made America the economic engine of the world. 

How do immigrants strengthen the U.S. economy? Below is our top 10 list for ways immigrants help to grow the American economy.

1.) Immigrants start businesses. According to the Small Business Administration, immigrants are 30 percent more likely to start a business in the United States than non-immigrants, and 18 percent of all small business owners in the United States are immigrants.

2.) Immigrant-owned businesses create jobs for American workers. According to the Fiscal Policy Institute, small businesses owned by immigrants employed an estimated 4.7 million people in 2007, and according to the latest estimates, these small businesses generated more than $776 billion annually.

3.) Immigrants are also more likely to create their own jobs. According the U.S. Department of Labor, 7.5 percent of the foreign born are self-employed compared to 6.6 percent among the native-born

4.) Immigrants develop cutting-edge technologies and companies.  According to the National Venture Capital Association, immigrants have started 25 percent of public U.S. companies that were backed by venture capital investors. This list includes Google, eBay, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and Intel.

5.) Immigrants are our engineers, scientists, and innovators. According to the Census Bureau, despite making up only 16 percent of the resident population holding a bachelor’s degree or higher, immigrants represent 33 percent of engineers, 27 percent of mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientist, and 24 percent of physical scientists. Additionally, according to the Partnership for a New American Economy, in 2011, foreign-born inventors were credited with contributing to more than 75 percent of patents issued to the top 10 patent-producing universities.

6.) Immigration boosts earnings for American workers. Increased immigration to the United States has increased the earnings of Americans with more than a high school degree. Between 1990 and 2004, increased immigration was correlated with increasing earnings of Americans by 0.7 percent and is expected to contribute to an increase of 1.8 percent over the long-term, according to a study by the University of California at Davis.

7.) Immigrants boost demand for local consumer goods. The Immigration Policy Center estimates that the purchasing power of Latinos and Asians, many of whom are immigrants, alone will reach $1.5 trillion and $775 billion, respectively, by 2015.

8.) Immigration reform legislation like the DREAM Act reduces the deficit.  According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, under the 2010 House-passed version of the DREAM Act, the federal deficit would be reduced by $2.2 billion over ten years because of increased tax revenues.

9.) Comprehensive immigration reform would create jobs. Comprehensive immigration reform could support and create up to 900,000 new jobs within three years of reform from the increase in consumer spending, according to the Center for American Progress.

10.) Comprehensive immigration reform would increase America’s GDP.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that even under low investment assumptions, comprehensive immigration reform would increase GDP by between 0.8 percent and 1.3 percent from 2012 to 2016.

SOURCE : https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/07/12/ten-ways-immigrants-help-build-and-strengthen-our-economy



B.) Immigrant Impact on Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

Immigrant business owners have created millions of American jobs through major corporations and countless small businesses. In the most recent analysis, nearly 45 percent of firms on the Fortune 500 list were founded by immigrants or their children.

SOURCE : https://citizenpath.com/immigrant-contributions/#:~:text=Immigrant%20Impact%20on%20Entrepreneurship%20and,by%20immigrants%20or%20their%20children.


C.) Immigrants Contribute Greatly to U.S. Economy, Despite Administration’s “Public Charge” Rule Rationale

AUGUST 15, 2019 | BY ARLOC SHERMAN, DANILO TRISI, CHAD STONE, SHELBY GONZALES AND SHARON PARROTT

The Department of Homeland Security’s recently finalized “public charge” rule directs immigration officials to reject applications from individuals who seek to remain in or enter the U.S. lawfully if they have received — or are judged more likely than not to receive in the future — any of an array of public benefits that are tied to need. The rule will have two main impacts. It will make it harder for those currently of modest means to gain lawful entry or permission to remain in the country as a permanent resident.

And it will make immigrant families fear receiving benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance that can help them make ends meet and access health care when their low pay is not enough. Many will forgo assistance altogether, resulting in more economic insecurity and hardship, with long-term negative consequences, particularly for children.

 The Administration’s justification for the rule rests on the erroneous assumption that immigrants currently of modest means are harmful to our nation and our economy, devaluing their work and contributions and discounting the upward mobility immigrant families demonstrate.
In fact, immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy in many ways. They work at high rates and make up more than a third of the workforce in some industries. Their geographic mobility helps local economies respond to worker shortages, smoothing out bumps that could otherwise weaken the economy. Immigrant workers help support the aging native-born population, increasing the number of workers as compared to retirees and bolstering the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. And children born to immigrant families are upwardly mobile, promising future benefits not only to their families, but to the U.S. economy overall.

SOURCE : https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/immigrants-contribute-greatly-to-us-economy-despite-administrations


BONUS 1 :

Immigration to the U.S. in the Late 1800s

Map of immigration to the U.S. from the east and west

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Immigration to the U.S. in the Late 1800s

Between 1870 and 1900, the largest number of immigrants continued to come from northern and western Europe including Great Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

But "new" immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were becoming one of the most important forces in American life.

More controversial, and much more limited, was immigration from Asia and Latin America.

MAP BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY  

SOURCE : https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/immigration-1870-1900/#


BONUS 2 :

Resource Library
Trends in Migration to the U.S.

Under the motto e pluribus unum (from many, one), U.S. presidents frequently remind Americans that they share the immigrant experience of beginning anew in the land of opportunity.1 Immigration is widely considered to be in the national interest, since it permits individuals to better themselves as it strengthens the United States.
For its first 100 years, the United States facilitated immigration, welcoming foreigners to settle a vast country. Beginning in the 1880s, an era of qualitative immigration restrictions began as certain types of immigrants were barred: prostitutes, workers with contracts that tied them to a particular employer for several years, and Chinese. In the 1920s, quantitative restrictions or quotas set a ceiling on the number of immigrants accepted each year.2
Immigration law changed in 1965. Qualitative and quantitative restrictions were maintained, but national origin preferences that favored the entry of Europeans were dropped. U.S. immigration policy began to favor the entry of foreigners who had U.S. relatives and foreigners requested by U.S. employers. During the 1970s, the origins of most immigrants changed from Europe to Latin America and Asia: Between 2000 and 2009 over three-fourths of the 10 million immigrants admitted were from Latin America and Asia.

SOURCE : https://www.prb.org/resources/trends-in-migration-to-the-u-s/#:~:text=The%20first%20wave%20of%20immigrants,were%20kept%20beginning%20in%201820.
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Maj John Bell Again there isn’t an argument nor a debate. Fact check what I post or don’t.

If you and others haven’t faceted checked and you just chime in with your opinions … that your choice.

When I post, I do so with supporting FACTS that anyone can FACT check against or not.

5 ways prisoners were used for profit throughout U.S. history

1. Bringing convict labor from Great Britain

Approximately one quarter of all British immigrants to America in the 18th century were convicts.


2. Privatizing the penitentiary

“In 1844, the state privatized the penitentiary, leading it to a company called McHatton, Pratt, & Ward. The company was responsible for the operations of the prison, including feeding and clothing inmates, and it could use inmate labor toward its own ends. The company put inmates to work from dawn till dusk in the penitentiary's textile factory. "These men laid aside all objects of reformation," one prisoner wrote, "and-re-instated the most cruel tyranny, to eke out the dollars and cents of human misery." Men who couldn't keep up with the work were beaten and whipped, sometimes to death.”


3. Selling children into slavery

“A number of these imprisoned slaves were women. Penitentiary records show a number of women imprisoned for "assaulting a white," arson, or attempting to poison someone, most likely their enslavers.

Some of these female prisoners became pregnant, either by fellow inmates or prison officials. In 1848, state legislatures passed a law declaring that all children born in the penitentiary to African Americans serving life sentences would become property of the state.”


4. Replacing enslaved people with convicts

“In many ways, the system was more brutal than slavery. The annual convict death rates ranged from 16 to 25 percent, a mortality rate that would rival the Soviet gulags to come. In 1870 Alabama prison officials reported that more than 40 percent of their convicts had died in their mining camps. There was simply no incentive for lessees to avoid working people to death. In 1883, one Southern man told the National Conference of Charities and Corrections: "Before the war, we owned the negroes. If a man had a good negro, he could afford to take care of him: if he was sick get a doctor. He might even put gold plugs in his teeth. But these convicts: we don't own 'em. One dies, get another."


5. Squeezing every dollar out of prisoners

“In Texas, a former slaveholder and prison superintendent began an "experiment." The state bought two plantations of its own to work inmates that were not fit enough to "hire out for first-class labor." As a business venture, it was a success. In just over a decade, the state was making around $1.25 million in today's dollars from its plantations, exceeding its income from the convict lease system. By 1928 the state of Texas would be running 12 prison plantations.

States throughout the South stopped hiring out their convicts to private businessmen and ran their own plantations, keeping all the profits. To squeeze every dollar they could from their prisoners, some states instituted a "trustee guard" system, using inmates rather than paid guards to watch over their prisons.

Typically, prisoners convicted of the most brutal acts were appointed to the job because of their willingness to shoot others. If a trustee guard shot an inmate assumed to be escaping, he was granted an immediate parole. Like slave drivers before Emancipation, certain prisoners were chosen to whip inmates in the fields.

Arkansas allowed the practice until 1967. Shortly after whipping was abolished, its prison plantations stopped turning a profit.”

SOURCE : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/arts/5-ways-prisoners-were-used-for-profit-throughout-u-s-history

If you’re so inclined and interested in the numbers about “Ten Ways Immigrants Help Build and Strengthen Our Economy” do some FACT finding or don’t.
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A lot of people are either misinformed, didn’t know or are plain just don’t care about the historical FACTS SFC Kelly Fuerhoff


As he ( SFC Kelly Fuerhoff ) stated. :

Immigration and the History of “White People Only” Laws

Racism against immigrants
Sep 7, 2017

Since the passage of the 1790 Naturalization Act that stipulated “all white male inhabitants” could qualify for U.S. citizenship, the category of whiteness has been used in various ways, through laws and cultural norms, to shape U.S. immigration policy.

Many of the major debates around immigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries made distinctions between northern European protestant immigrants — people deemed purely Nordic or Anglo-Saxon — and those from Catholic and other backgrounds, most notably Irish and German Catholics — who were deemed suspect. Nativist movements including the 19th-century Know-Nothing Party and the early-20th-century KKK fomented suspicion of Catholic communities.

SOURCE : https://www.boundless.com/blog/immigration-whites-only/
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff Respectfully *she.
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The Republicans tried to get citizenship added to the census but it failed...
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This is from 2018...based on when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was WH press secretary...

"After a controversial decision by the Department of Commerce to add a question about U.S. citizenship to the 2020 census, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the move as nothing out of the ordinary." "This is a question that's been included in every census since 1965," Sanders said Tuesday, "with the exception of 2010, when it was removed."

Response (from 2018): This statement is inaccurate, incomplete and misleading. A quick history of the decennial survey makes that clear.

Did you not think it was weird that it quoted Huckabee Sanders as the WH press secretary? I'm confused why you're posting an article from 2018. Did something come up about the census again?

I'm more concerned with how invasive the census surveys are - with questions like asking people what time they leave for work or how many bathrooms they have. Why does the government need to know this? And if you refuse to fill out any portion of it, you could be fined under Title 13 of the US Code.

It sounds like the census ir really ridiculously invasive for no reason. Ultimately. But nowhere in this article does it talk about voting. So what are you talking about conspiracy for - the conspiracy might be why is the government trying to collect so much personal data on people?
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