Some observations about immigration, with suitable caveats on a moving target
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Epstein on Immigration
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Deferred Action: A Bird In Hand For Young Immigrants
Huffduffed from http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/23/178669698/Deferred-Action-A-Bird-In-Hand-For-Young-Immigrants?ft=1&f=173754155&utm_source=feedly
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Interview with Alex Tabarrok
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A Dream to Teach, Born in the Philippines : NPR
Lourdes Cereno Markley was born in the Philippines. As a young woman in the 1960s, she was determined to attend college in the United States. She recently talked with her daughter, Julia, about the bold move that made it happen.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5521437
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China's exploding population spurs worldâs largest water diversion project and lots of questions marks | WBEZ
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RN Rear Vision - 6 July 2011 - The True Finns: populist politics and Euroscepticism in Finland
In April this year Finland went to the polls — and the right wing populist party, the True Finns, gained almost 20 per cent of the vote. This upset almost 30 years of consensus politics, and shows an upsurge in anti-European Union, anti-immigration, socially conservative values.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2011/3258960.htm
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Slavoj Žižek: Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise in Europe
We turn now to Europe, where many are concerned about the growing acceptability of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Far from just being expressed by the extreme right wing, the anti-immigrant trend has entered the mainstream. German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union party this weekend that multiculturalism has utterly failed. A recent German poll found 13 percent of Germans would welcome the arrival of a new "Führer," and more than a third of Germans feel the country is "overrun by foreigners." We speak to the world-renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who has the been called "the Elvis of cultural theory."
From http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/18/slavoj_zizek_far_right_and_anti
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Hellbound Alleee Show 140: Jury Duty
Francois and I return after 13 months to relate a story about my almost serving on a Federal Immigration case, and Francois pontificates.
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Jocelyn’ Story | American Friends Service Committee
16-year-old Jocelyn recounts the last day she saw her mother and how her family’s life has changed since the deportation.
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Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization
Nils Gilman describes deviant globalization as "the unpleasant underside of transnational integration."
There’s nice tourism, and then sex tourism, such as in Thailand and Switzerland. The vast pharmacology industry is matched by a vast traffic in illegal drugs. The underside of waste disposal is the criminal dumping in the developing world of toxic wastes from the developed world. Military activities worldwide are fed by a huge gray market in weapons. Internet communications are undermined by floods of malware doubling every year. Among the commodities shipped around the world are exotic hardwoods, endangered species, blood diamonds, and stolen art worth billions in ransom. Illegitimate health care includes the provision of human organs from poor people — you can get a new kidney with no waiting for $150,000 in places like Brazil, the Philippines, Istanbul, and South Africa. Far overwhelming legal immigration are torrents of illegal immigrants who pay large sums to get across borders. And money laundering accounts for 4-12% of world GDP — $1.5 to 5 trillion dollars a year.
These are not marginal, "informal" activities. These are enormous, complex businesses straight out of the Harvard Business Review. The drug business in Mexico, for example, employs 400,000 people. A thousand-dollar kilo of cocaine grows in value by 1400-percent when it crosses into the U.S. — nice profit margin there.
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