{"id":243,"date":"2006-04-03T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-04-03T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T13:48:37","slug":"some-thoughts-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. \nWhy is immigration such a hot topic all of a sudden? A few weeks ago (before the administration’s polls took a steep nose-dive) this was not even a minor issue. How much are we as a nation being manipulated to divert attention from the continuing failures in Iraq, in New Orleans, in the economy, and elsewhere?\n<\/li>\n
  2. \nNumber of people who died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall: 171<\/b>
    \nNumber of people who died crossing the US\/Mexican border from 1996-2001: 1700<\/b>
    \nWhy are we so quick to laud those fleeing political oppression for a better life, and so quick to blame those fleeing economic oppression for a better life?\n<\/li>\n
  3. \nWhy are the politicians so quick to seek to enforce illegal immigrant laws, but are unwilling to prosecute the companies that hire them? Both are illegal.\n<\/li>\n
  4. \nThe vast majority of illegal immigrants have earnings that would put them below the US definition of poverty. The last time the minimum wage was increased was in 1997, a worker earning the minimum wage woul earn a total of $10,712 (compared to the $25,000 increase<\/i> in congressional salaries over that time). The inflation rate over the same period of time<\/a> has been 24.64%. Perhaps if they could earn a living wage, Americans would<\/i> be willing to take these jobs.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Oh, and in case anyone forgets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n
    American Service Personnel killed in Iraq:<\/th>\n2332<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    American Service Personnel wounded in Iraq:<\/th>\n17239 (officially)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Iraqi Casualties since the start of the Iraq War:<\/th>\n~40,000-100,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Cost of the war to date:<\/th>\n>$ 270,000,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    How long global anti-hunger efforts could
    have been funded for that amount:<\/th>\n    		11 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Weapons of Mass Destruction Found:<\/th>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda Found:<\/th>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Ties between pre-war Iraq and the 9\/11 Attacks:<\/th>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Why is immigration such a hot topic all of a sudden? A few weeks ago (before the administration’s polls took a steep nose-dive) this was not even a minor issue. How much are we as a nation being manipulated to divert attention from the continuing failures in Iraq, in New Orleans, in the economy, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}