tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548695401579410439.post4826015322418615453..comments2024-01-04T07:05:27.381-06:00Comments on Immigration Talk with a Mexican American: Seeking the American Dream: The Life of a so called "Illeegal"Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09583438645860375661noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548695401579410439.post-62522186910117722852011-04-24T17:30:01.037-05:002011-04-24T17:30:01.037-05:00Dee :
"The dirt and filth that does not kill...Dee :<br /><br />"The dirt and filth that does not kill you, makes you stronger"<br /><br /><br />"Todd Landfried, a spokesperson for Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform, a group of more than 250 businesses in the state, says companies are realizing that SB 1070 drove away consumers and taxpayers, made it harder to find labor, and gave Arizona a bad reputation as a place to do business".<br /><br /><br /><br />New America Media, <br />News Report<br />One Year After SB 1070, Arizona's Immigrant Networks Are Stronger<br />April 22, 2011 <br /><br /><br />http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/one-year-after-sb-1070-arizonas-immigrant-networks-are-stronger.php<br /><br /><br /><br />Some excerpts ;<br /><br />"There's a general concensus that [passing anti-immigrant legislation] has been a bad strategy for Arizona," Landfried says.<br /><br />A study released this past March by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank in Washington, D.C., contrasts the economic effects of massive deportation with the effects of legalization of Arizona’s estimated half a million undocumented immigrants.<br /><br />An enforcement-only approach could lead to a loss of 17.2 percent of total employment in the state and shrink the state's economy by $48.8 billion, according to the report. Legalizing undocumented immigrants in the state, meanwhile, could increase employment by close to 8 percent and increase state tax revenues by $1.68 billion.<br /><br />As of last November, a boycott against the state had cost convention centers $141 million in cancellations, according to another CAP study.<br /><br />Alfredo Gutierrez, a former Democratic state senator and editor of the bilingual online newspaper La Frontera Times in Phoenix, says that businesses turned against SB 1070 in the wake of the boycott and the efforts by pro-immigrant groups to exert political pressure, through civl disobedience demonstrations and behind the scenes.<br /><br />The pro-immigrant movement in Arizona "is maturing politically—it was being pushed to the brink,” Gutierrez says. <br />.Defensores de Democraciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01990488344886411353noreply@blogger.com