Sunday, August 12, 2007
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".
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Nicola's blog on immigration issues has become active again - which is good to hear a reasoned view since we will hear a lot of huffing and puffing from Washington on the issue as it is discussed in Congress again. Today she disucsses the new points system and disagrees with AILA's negative stance on the proposed points system, arguing that it actually works pretty well in other countries.
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Take time to have a look at the progress with the 100 homes in 100 days project in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where the target is to build or renovate 100 homes in 100 days - ending on July 4th, 2007. They are at a halfway point and have made great progress.
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Well, we are all looking forward to next weekend when our favorite immigration lawyer from Raleigh NC will be coming home with Andy for their engagement party. The garden normally would look great at this time of year, but we have had a weird spring. After leaves on the trees started coming out in March when Spring came early with 80 degree temperatures, we then had five nights of temperatures well below freezing - killed al the young leaves on our Japanese Maple and many of the leaves on the regular maples too (I'll post pics later). Still, who am I to complain: farmers around here lost all their winter wheat which was at a particularly delicate stage when the frosts came.
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Monday, February 12, 2007
It is now almost exactly a year since Nicola became an immigration lawyer in Raleigh, NC. I am so proud of her progress - and I think her clients too are happy with the speed and accuracy with which she expedites their cases.
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Monday, November 20, 2006
We have just laid down some Turkish ceramic tiles in our sitting room - I'll post some photos later. A friend our ours from Bowling Green, KY imports them from Turkey. Very pleased with the result - and easy to keep clean. Of course we turned the house upside down to clear the sitting room, but will have everything back in place for a house full of people at Thanksgiving.
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
Check out this website for "Hope Has a Face Foundation". Guy's former colleague, Keith Canfield, left his job as VP of Marketing for PIC to start this foundation whose objective is to locate donors and secure funding for post-Katrina rebuilding projects on the Gulf Coast. The web-site explains the type of project he is focusing on. He will shortly be bringing out an up-market catalog of projects that need funding and will be mailing it nationwide. He also is setting up interviews on TV talk shows around the country as a way to bring attention to these worthy projects. More power to Keith - worth spreading the word about his web-site and its objectives!
