Posts Tagged 'immigration policy'

Made in America Panel Predicts that Obama’s Immigration Policy will be Found Unconstitutional

Made in America Panel Predicts that Obama’s Immigration Policy will be Found Unconstitutional

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 69 stations) by proposing that President Obama’s executive order to grant “green cards” to 5 million undocumented immigrants is probably unconstitutional.   Worse, it means more competition for American citizens looking for work, especially among blacks that have an unemployment rate near 20 percent.  Neal agreed with the common consensus that this executive order is nothing but a political move to garner Hispanic ...

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Sacrificing Immigration Reform on the Altar of Cynical Politics

Sacrificing Immigration Reform on the Altar of Cynical Politics
In February 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama said this about immigration: “Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we’ve got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what’s worse is we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you’ve got a hard-working immigrant family, they’ve got to hire a lawyer; they’ve got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can’t afford it, and it’s discriminatory ...
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Our Broken Immigration Program Stems From a Broken Trade Policy

Our Broken Immigration Program Stems From a Broken Trade Policy

The flood of refugees into the United States is not only a sign of a failed immigration policy, but of a trade policy that ignores the underlying reason for this humanitarian crisis.

Robert Zoellick, who served as president of the World Bank, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state, recently wrote an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he maintained that if President Obama had been paying closer attention to Central America, he could have stemmed the tide ...

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Detroit Continues a Legacy of Inclusion

Detroit Continues a Legacy of Inclusion

Some people count Detroit down and out. I’m not one of them. To do so would ignore the contributions that the American car manufacturing industry made to the world’s industrial and economic development. And its center was Detroit.

Henry Ford is known as a visionary inventor, but he also saw the wisdom in creating a diverse workforce. According to a Ford Motor historical perspective, since its founding in 1903, “Ford has established itself as a premier American employer by supporting equitable ...

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