c*****g
发帖数: 21627 | 1 给下面这篇左逼霉文做一个摘要：
“大赫非法移民，不会增加福利负担，也不会增加就业
相反，会促进就业，增加财税，增加鸡的P”
文章甚至“伟光正”到了连“Amnesty ”这个词的使用都被视为不当
而是要说什么“earned residency.”
Alejandrino Honorato’s introduction to America began with a smuggler who
led him across the Rio Grande into the Texas desert. Eventually he was
guided to a North Carolina field, where he paid for his passage by picking
tobacco. Living illegally in a labor camp, Honorato didn’t know politicians
in Washington were deciding his future. It was 1986, and Congress was
weighing an amnesty plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers.
Unemployment was 7 percent. Some lawmakers warned that a flood of newly
legal workers would strain hospitals and schools and overwhelm the economy,
driving wages down. “Are we going to cause havoc?” asked Representative
Bill McCollum, a Florida Republican, as the House prepared to vote.
The doomsday predictions proved wrong. The bill became law, and almost 3
million illegal immigrants, including Honorato, were granted amnesty. He
settled in Apopka, Fla., where he found work in a greenhouse, bought a home,
and raised a family. In 1998 he and his brother used their savings to buy a
$15,000 tortilla-making machine and opened their first restaurant. Today he
is a U.S. citizen and owns two restaurants and a small grocery in central
Florida that employ about 60 people. “I’ve helped a lot of people work,”
he says through a translator. “If people were legalized, they’d have a
chance to open businesses like me.”
Honorato’s experience is worth considering as the White House and Congress
debate an even more sweeping amnesty this year. President Obama has made it
a priority for his second term, and senators including Democrat Charles
Schumer of New York and Republican John McCain of Arizona are drafting
legislation that features a path to residency—and perhaps citizenship—for
some 11 million undocumented workers.
More than two decades of research show the 1986 law raised wages and helped
lift the economy. By 1992 average hourly wages for the millions of formerly
undocumented workers had risen 15.1 percent, according to a Department of
Labor survey. U.S. wages overall continued to rise, a 2012 study by the
Economic Policy Institute in Washington shows, even as the nation entered a
recession that lasted from July 1990 to March 1991.
Barriers to upward economic mobility eased as the immigrants found jobs that
better matched their skills, notes Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, director
of the North American Integration and Development Center at the University
of California at Los Angeles. They pursued high school and college degrees
and bought homes. “You have a chance to make it, you’re a stakeholder now,
” he says. “These people are employed already. It’s not like you’re
bringing them in and dumping them onto the labor market.”
Using economic projections from the Congressional Budget Office, Hinojosa-
Ojeda calculates that a comprehensive immigration plan this year that
includes a way for undocumented workers to gain legal status would increase
tax revenue by $4.5 billion or more over three years, and increase gross
domestic product by $1.5 trillion over 10 years. That includes $1.2 trillion
in additional consumption and $256 billion in investment as immigrants buy
houses and start businesses. Average wages of low-skill immigrant workers
would increase by $4,405 a year for the first three years, he estimates. For
skilled workers, wages would rise by more than $6,100 a year.
The newly legal workers could also ease the economic effects of an aging U.S
. population. As baby boomers retire and fewer young people start families,
the growth of the labor force is slowing. Citing research by the CBO, Matt
McDonald, an adviser to McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and a partner
at Hamilton Place Strategies, which advises employers on immigration policy,
says the rate of growth in the U.S. workforce is expected to drop to 0.5
percent in the next five years, the lowest in decades. An influx of workers
would help to offset those losses, though it’s not clear by how much.
Optimistic forecasts like these have made the current debate far less
contentious than the last one. Economists at the libertarian Cato Institute
and the liberal Center for American Progress are in rare agreement that
legalization makes economic sense—though with U.S. unemployment at 7.7
percent and more than 12 million Americans out of work, politicians are
careful to avoid the loaded word “amnesty.” The current term of art used
by Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and others pressing for reform
is “earned residency.”
One of the unsettled questions in the immigration debate, especially among
Republicans, is whether amnesty should eventually lead to citizenship. While
Rubio, McCain, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and other influential
Republican senators have endorsed a reform package that includes a chance at
citizenship, Florida Governor Jeb Bush came out against it in his new book
on immigration: “… those who violated the laws can remain, but
cannot obtain the cherished fruits of citizenship.” That reflects the view
of many in the GOP’s right wing. But after criticism from Rubio and others,
Bush quickly reversed himself, saying he was “in sync” with the senators.
Even some groups that lobby for tougher border controls have softened their
resistance to amnesty for undocumented workers living in the U.S. Steven
Camarota, director of research for one such group, the Center for
Immigration Studies, concedes there isn’t a strong economic argument
against letting them stay. Instead, his group is urging lawmakers to include
more border security in the immigration bill to keep new illegal immigrants
from coming to take the place of those granted amnesty. In a $13 trillion
economy with a labor force of about 155 million, he says, the downside of
legalizing immigrants who are already working here “is so small in most
ways it’s almost not worth thinking about.”
For Rodolfo Cardenas and his wife, amnesty was anything but small. They
applied for and got legal status in 1987 after overstaying their student
visas. Living in Boulder, Colo., with their small son, they relied on help
from their parents in Venezuela. Cardenas now hosts a radio talk show; his
wife is a teacher. Their son also received amnesty. In 2007, Rudy Cardenas
won a spot on American Idol and made it to the semifinals. “The 1986 law
changed our lives,” Rodolfo Cardenas says. “It’s a story of success that
only happens here in this country.”
The bottom line: Amnesty for the 11 million undocumented workers living in
the U.S. could increase tax revenue by $4.5 billion over three years. | m********a
发帖数: 1041 | 2 我的老師也是這樣說的. 她很驕傲地說那時候大赦只給已經進入美國四年的非法移民，
她的前夫不合規定。所以她母親就安排兩人結婚，幫助她前夫拿到身分。他現在也在社
區大學教書，對美國很有貢獻。 | c*****g
发帖数: 21627 | 3 非法移民有贡献，合法移民就没贡献了？
合法移民交的税更高，不但人人都已经被employed，而且根本没有吃福利的，
合法移民的家庭数量还少。很少会像非法移民一样一生生一窝
为什么不提合法移民的贡献？
【在 m********a 的大作中提到】
: 我的老師也是這樣說的. 她很驕傲地說那時候大赦只給已經進入美國四年的非法移民，
: 她的前夫不合規定。所以她母親就安排兩人結婚，幫助她前夫拿到身分。他現在也在社
: 區大學教書，對美國很有貢獻。
| m********a
发帖数: 1041 | 4 那時英語太爛，沒本事回嘴。
【在 c*****g 的大作中提到】
: 非法移民有贡献，合法移民就没贡献了？
: 合法移民交的税更高，不但人人都已经被employed，而且根本没有吃福利的，
: 合法移民的家庭数量还少。很少会像非法移民一样一生生一窝
: 为什么不提合法移民的贡献？
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