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January 18, 2008
American Apparel Runs Pro-Illegal Immigration Ads "[American Apparel], known for its tight-fitting jersey T-shirts and House Panel Faults DHS For Citizenship Backlog "A deluge of immigration applications in the months preceding a New Book: The Immigration Solution Heather MacDonald, Steven Malanga and Victor Hanson authors of the new book "Because so many immigrants are low wage workers, their contribution to the economy is not as significant as the contributions that immigrants once made. The National Academies study estimated in 1998 that immigrants produced a net economic benefit of some $10 billion to our economy, which in an economy of our size is a very small contribution, especially when contrasted with the costs. Studies which estimate a bigger benefit typically include the wages being paid to immigrants themselves as part of the contribution to our economy, or they often make projections into the future based on questionable assumptions to 'find' a time in the distant future when today’s immigrants will finally produce a net benefit to the economy," noted Malanga. Also see: Michelle Malkin with a mini-review expands on her book-jacket endorsement. Sundance Nominee Has Sci-Fi Take on Illegal Immigration "Near future, the Mexican-American border. Anti-immigrant initiatives One Illegal Alien's Trash is Treasure for a Tucson "Artist" "Some aging hippy-dippy artist chick has invented a strange new "'For most everybody, this is trash,' says Ms. James, a 53-year-old artist who maintains a collection of migrant artifacts, mostly belongings discarded by illegal border crossers here. 'You can see the migrant's journey in these jeans,' she says, pointing to the holes made in them by cactus needles in the Sonoran desert," the Wall Street Journal writes. |
brazen attitude, regularly runs advertisements showing scantily clad young people, photographed by the company's founder and chief executive, Dov Charney, that some critics say border on the pornographic. In a new series of ads, American Apparel is moving in a political direction. The cause is immigration reform, and the ads say in part that the status quo 'amounts to an apartheid system' and should be overhauled to create a legal path for undocumented workers to gain citizenship in the United States," the New York Times writes. "Some immigration experts criticized the advertisement and said it amounted to an admission that American Apparel uses illegal immigrants. 'It is self-serving propaganda to perpetuate cheap labor policies that are in violation of American law,' said Vernon M. Briggs Jr., a professor emeritus at Cornell who specializes in immigration policy. 'This is not 'apartheid.' This is simply law-breaking. 'Apartheid' is an emotional term that is designed to inflame the issue.'"
filing fee increase last year should have been foreseen, lawmakers on Thursday told Bush administration officials. Previous increases in immigration application fees have been preceded by spikes in applications, said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. Application increases have also been seen in years before elections because people want to vote, she said," the Washington Post reports. "Emilio Gonzalez, Citizenship and Immigration Services director, said his agency did anticipate an increase in applications and the increase was manageable. 'What we did not anticipate, and I'll be honest with you, is a 350 percent increase in one month,' Gonzalez told the subcommittee."
The Immigration Solution A Better Plan Than Today's participated in an online discussion for FrontPage Magazine. "These are problems that are currently taboo to speak about, but they must be looked at unflinchingly as we decide what our immigration policy should be. While many immigrants continue to thrive and to enrich our country, too many from the second and third generation of Hispanics are developing behaviors that will fray the social fabric and cost taxpayers millions in welfare and criminal justice outlays," said Heather MacDonald. 
have succeeded in shutting down the frontier to illegal crossings, but that doesn’t mean cheap Mexican labor isn’t still working in American farms and factories. Thanks to the wonders of technology, laborers can now hook up their nervous systems to Internet connections that control robots that work in El Norte. That’s the bizarre and intriguing premise of 'Sleep Dealer,' a movie by New York-based filmmaker Alex Rivera that has been accepted as one of 16 films in the dramatic competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, beginning today in Park City, Utah," the New York Daily News reports. 
high-brow mode of respect for illegal aliens. Their discarded wrappers, gloves, ripped jeans, and other trash is no longer 'trash,' except maybe to you lowly, the lumpenproletariat, who is too unsophisticated to understand that a used condom covered in desert sand and who-knows-what-communicable-disease is actually advanced, brilliant art. These are 'pilgrims' on a 'journey,' after all," writes Debbie Schlussel.