Legal or illegal, does immigration cost us jobs?

The Tea Party, and other xenophobes, would have us believe that immigration - legal or otherwise - is bad in every way. Like so many of the issues the right attempts to address, the issues are far more complex than their rank and file take the time and effort to understand. Unfortunately, their jingoistic sloganeering is what ends up in the media sound chamber, and is picked up as ‘fact’ by too many people.

Again, I have provided you the links to the immigration reform organizations mentioned in this analysis. Go to their sites, and peruse the About Us sections, and their Boards. It can often be quite revealing. The 23 member group of Supporters for NumbersUSA includes eight who are ‘deceased’. I find that puzzling. You have to wonder why they can’t come up with a group of completely living Supporters; individuals who can speak on their on behalf regarding their support, unlike people like the late Edward Abbey. The Daily Kos had an interesting article about NumbersUSA, by Alfredo Martin Bravo de Ruedo Espejo, “The Charming Racism of Numbers USA”.

FAIR ( Federation for American Immigration Reform) may not be exactly what it seems either, looking at some analysis on RightWeb (“Tracking militarists efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy”):

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Nevada: ET and Batshit Crazy Teaparty types abounding

The question, gentle reader, has Nevada become ground zero for crazy? Synonymous for nutty? A stand-in for irrational thinking?

Do Extra-Terrestials walk amongst us. Could the Tea Party candidates who yearn to be free of Harry Reid actually be rational human flesh that has been possessed by daffy aliens?

BlueLyon and others are on point to news coming from Jon Ralston that another Tea Party type is chomping at the bit to get in the race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Jon Scott Ashjian, only the second (!) Armenian to declare himself a contender in this years contest - Danny Tarkanian being the first - is reportedly waiting for The Tea Party of Nevada to be declared almost sane enough to qualify as a legitimate political party by the Secretary of State’s office.

You have to hand it to Nevadan’s. We are an inclusive bunch, especially when it comes to looney quasi political parties and their batshit crazy quasi candidates.

Beating a path out of Utah and the clutches of the Mormon Cult some twenty plus years ago, I thought that Nevada had to be a safer bet. Now I realize how misguided I was.

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