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March 15, 2007
"Amnesty Is Not Going to Fly" Says Bush Mexican President Says His Relatives May be Working Illegally in the U.S. "President Bush wrapped up his Latin American tour Wednesday with a "Responding to a question during a joint news conference, [Mexican President] Calderon confirmed that he had relatives working in vegetable fields in the United States, adding, 'They probably handle what you eat.' But he said he didn't know their legal status." Greenspan: Professional Wages Too High, We Need More Immigration Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said allowing more skilled [FAIR comment: Notable is that Greenspan is now making explicit what was implicit in his remarks years ago that immigration would help slow wage inflation - immigration lowers wages. Also, Greenspan's remarks are similar to those made by economist Dean Baker with the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research.] Barletta Testifies in Hazleton Trial "Hazleton Mayor Louis Barletta testified yesterday that his city needs another |
pledge to Mexican President Felipe Calderon that he would seek an accord that straddles the middle ground between amnesty to illegal residents and booting out more than 12 million people. 'Amnesty is not going to fly,' Bush said. 'There is not going to be automatic citizenship; it just won't work. People in the United States don't support that, and neither do I. Nor will kicking people out of the United States work. It's not practical,'" the LA Times reports. 
immigrants to work in the United States would help keep the income gap from widening. Inequality of incomes is the 'critical area where capitalist systems are most vulnerable,' Greenspan said yesterday in Washington at a conference on maintaining the competitiveness of US capital markets convened by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. 'You cannot have a system that we have unless the people who participate in it believe it is just,'" the Boston Globe reports. "Allowing more skilled workers into the country would bring down the salaries of top earners in the United States, easing tensions over the mounting wage gap, Greenspan said. 'Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world,' he said. 'If we open up a significant window for skilled workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income.'"
30 police officers, but his crime-fighting priority has been creating laws to kick illegal immigrants out of town. During five hours on the witness stand, Mr. Barletta said Hazleton is being ruined by violent crime, crowded schools and a clogged emergency room at the city's private hospital. He attributed many of the problems to what he called 'illegal aliens,' even though he admitted he had no idea how many such immigrants are in his city," the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. "Mr. Barletta said the ordinances are necessary to stop crime. Mr. Walczak jumped on the comment, telling the mayor it was unrealistic to believe crime could be eliminated. 'Especially when you're trying to do it and you're sued,' Mr. Barletta said."