Comments on: “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/03/01/catch-an-illegal-immigrant/ Politics in the Bay Area and beyond Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:39:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NKMA http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/03/01/catch-an-illegal-immigrant/comment-page-1/#comment-5080 NKMA Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:15:10 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/03/01/catch-an-illegal-immigrant/#comment-5080 The reality is that California politicians want illegal immigration no matter what the citizens want. Cheap labor for corporations, subsidized by the taxpayers through higher medical costs at hospitals, hospital district taxes, food stamps, and other transfer programs. And never forget that additional congressional seat to be obtained without the trouble of having any more of those nasty demanding voters; illegal immigrants count in the census. The reality is that California politicians want illegal immigration no matter what the citizens want.

Cheap labor for corporations, subsidized by the taxpayers through higher medical costs at hospitals, hospital district taxes, food stamps, and other transfer programs.

And never forget that additional congressional seat to be obtained without the trouble of having any more of those nasty demanding voters; illegal immigrants count in the census.

]]> By: jskdn http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/03/01/catch-an-illegal-immigrant/comment-page-1/#comment-5079 jskdn Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:29:07 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/03/01/catch-an-illegal-immigrant/#comment-5079 Those studies are hardly definitive. The wage study runs counter to many others and was a deliberate effort by the pro-mass immigration PPIC to produce a known outcome. The author of the study on wages in California produced a similar study on the US as a whole last year so of course the PPIC knew exactly what they were getting when the commissioned the study. And I don't think you'll find one other thing the author ever did for the PPIC. The PPIC's head Mark Baldasarre is a man that pushes his agenda on immigration, something that is evident to those of us who have followed his polling. The immigrant criminality study was not a release but rather a re-release by the "policy" arm of the an immigration lawyer advocacy group of a study that is on Migration Policy Institute web site and dated June 1 of last year. I'd read it before the article came out this week and it had a tone that seemed less than academic, which unfortunately isn't that surprising for a college sociologist and sociology grad students. Social science is often agenda driven. I have no idea what the College Republicans are doing but I imagine it's like the affirmative action cookie sales they've held. Whatever you think of it, Torres does the usual removal of any distinction between legal and illegal when he calls it anti-immigrant. That's a distinction most voters want to preserve. Those studies are hardly definitive. The wage study runs counter to many others and was a deliberate effort by the pro-mass immigration PPIC to produce a known outcome. The author of the study on wages in California produced a similar study on the US as a whole last year so of course the PPIC knew exactly what they were getting when the commissioned the study. And I don’t think you’ll find one other thing the author ever did for the PPIC. The PPIC’s head Mark Baldasarre is a man that pushes his agenda on immigration, something that is evident to those of us who have followed his polling.

The immigrant criminality study was not a release but rather a re-release by the “policy” arm of the an immigration lawyer advocacy group of a study that is on Migration Policy Institute web site and dated June 1 of last year. I’d read it before the article came out this week and it had a tone that seemed less than academic, which unfortunately isn’t that surprising for a college sociologist and sociology grad students. Social science is often agenda driven.

I have no idea what the College Republicans are doing but I imagine it’s like the affirmative action cookie sales they’ve held. Whatever you think of it, Torres does the usual removal of any distinction between legal and illegal when he calls it anti-immigrant. That’s a distinction most voters want to preserve.

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