Saturday, June 09, 2007
I sent an email (for text see below), to both of my Senators today urging them to get back to reforming immigration. The point I am trying to make is that delay in reform has the effect of slowing the growth of the American economy and speeding up the off-shoring of US jobs to other countries.
I'm actually not sure whether the bill's passage helps Nicola, our daughter who is an immigration lawer in Raleigh NC, but I am hopeful it will help the US economy as well as immigrants present and future, documented and undocumented.
Text: I was deeply disappointed in the Senate's failure to move ahead with immigration reform. I would urge you to get back to the immigration debate yet this summer, compromising where necessary, to get it done.
The presence of 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country coupled with our very low national unemployment rate is ample evidence that our country's economy is big enough to have them come out of the shadows. The continuing flow of immigrants legal as well as undocumented, combined with a massively oversubscribed demand for work visas of all types is further evidence that our economy wants to grow even faster. Yet our economy's growth is being held back by our antiquated immigration laws and today's quotas compounded by the failure of our elected officials to reform the immigration laws. Failure to provide enough workers here directly speeds up the off-shoring of those jobs to other countries.
Sir, please get back to the debate this summer and reform the immigration law.
I was also deeply disappointed in the bipartisan finger-pointing that followed the voting on cloture. Please turn those fingers to the future, and say "That's where we are going, together", and not at each other complaining "She's the reason I can't get where I want to go".
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I'm actually not sure whether the bill's passage helps Nicola, our daughter who is an immigration lawer in Raleigh NC, but I am hopeful it will help the US economy as well as immigrants present and future, documented and undocumented.
Text: I was deeply disappointed in the Senate's failure to move ahead with immigration reform. I would urge you to get back to the immigration debate yet this summer, compromising where necessary, to get it done.
The presence of 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country coupled with our very low national unemployment rate is ample evidence that our country's economy is big enough to have them come out of the shadows. The continuing flow of immigrants legal as well as undocumented, combined with a massively oversubscribed demand for work visas of all types is further evidence that our economy wants to grow even faster. Yet our economy's growth is being held back by our antiquated immigration laws and today's quotas compounded by the failure of our elected officials to reform the immigration laws. Failure to provide enough workers here directly speeds up the off-shoring of those jobs to other countries.
Sir, please get back to the debate this summer and reform the immigration law.
I was also deeply disappointed in the bipartisan finger-pointing that followed the voting on cloture. Please turn those fingers to the future, and say "That's where we are going, together", and not at each other complaining "She's the reason I can't get where I want to go".
