Imagining Life Without Illegal Immigrants

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Illegal immigrants, illegal aliens and
the undocumented

Illegal immigrants, illegal aliens and
the undocumented 01/24/2004 07:13 PM
It's only used by frothing-at-the-mouth xenophobes. Not that there's a shortage of them. Google yields 242,000 Web sites where "illegal aliens" appears. ...

Kerry: No licenses for illegal
immigrants

Kerry: No licenses for illegal
immigrants 07/01/2004 01:45 PM

Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social
Security With Billions

Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social
Security With Billions 04/05/2005 09:23 AM
The estimated seven million illegal workers in the U.S. provide Social Security with a subsidy of as much as $7 billion a year.

Local Officers Join Search for Illegal
Immigrants

Local Officers Join Search for Illegal
Immigrants 04/12/2004 10:08 AM
Alabama is the epicenter of a widening effort to encourage states and localities to help enforce immigration laws in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mexico defends comic book for illegal
immigrants (Reuters)

Mexico defends comic book for illegal
immigrants (Reuters) 01/05/2005 01:43 AM
Reuters - Mexico has defended a government comic book showing illegal migrants how to cross the border and live quietly in the United States against charges that it promotes undocumented immigration.

Illegal Immigrants Receive a One-Way
Ticket to Mexico (Los Angeles Times)

Illegal Immigrants Receive a One-Way
Ticket to Mexico (Los Angeles Times) 07/13/2004 05:13 AM
Los Angeles Times - MEXICO CITY — The first repatriation flight of Mexicans caught illegally crossing the Arizona border landed here Monday evening, kicking off a new deportation program that could return thousands of border crossers deep into Mexico.

Is the Half-Life 2 EULA illegal?

Is the Half-Life 2 EULA illegal? 02/07/2005 01:47 AM

Re-Imagining Apple

Re-Imagining Apple 03/23/2005 05:37 PM

Far be it from me to accuse anyone of having an Apple fetish, but I think hiring an ex-Apple product designer to do speculative mock-ups of potential new products might be a bit obsessive. But Business 2.0 likes them some Apple, for sure, and has just put up pictures of five potential new Apple gadgets (or more, depending on how you count) that they think might come out in the future. It's a companion piece to another article that is subscription only, sadly.

Re-Imagining Apple [Business2]

Imagining ImClone

Imagining ImClone 04/27/2004 02:43 PM
Plus, DuPont doesn't shock, and finding the next Google.

Imagining Saddam's trial

Imagining Saddam's trial 12/17/2003 07:15 AM
detailed article .. barry lando .. preview .. Salon

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Now the Bush Cartel is Imagining It Has
Allies, But Can't Name Them, Maureen
Dowd 3/12

Now the Bush Cartel is Imagining It Has
Allies, But Can't Name Them, Maureen
Dowd 3/12 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
how foolish our "go it alone" policy is .. wearing her schoolgirl outfit again .. imaginary friends .. I Vant to Be Alone .. NY Times .. column .. op-ed .. more

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"Imagining Australia" regional
collaborative bl0g launches

"Imagining Australia" regional
collaborative bl0g launches 07/07/2004 02:35 PM
BoingBoing pal Brian B. says:

Aussiephiles rejoice! The authors of a new book called Imagining Australia (four precocious blokes under or at the age of 30) have started a blog. wicked smaht, these dudes have more advanced degrees from Harvard than you or I do (well, more than I do anyway) and may well all play pivotal roles in shaping the motherland they love... good on ya, mates.

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Clarke calls for ID cards after
imagining huge poison terror ring

Clarke calls for ID cards after
imagining huge poison terror ring 04/14/2005 09:47 AM
Analysis Hunt for cream tubs of death continues

Why the U.S. needs immigrants

Why the U.S. needs immigrants 01/07/2004 03:29 PM

On my way back up towards Boston from Miami I sat next to an Argentine who had been living and working in Washington, DC for many years, lured by a plum job at an international organization.  We talked about the parallels between the current U.S. economy and the Argentine economy circa 2000, i.e., just before their currency collapsed 3:1.  Both economies had been losing manufacturing jobs as goods were imported from China and other centers of cheap highly skilled labor.  Both economies therefore had been running large trade deficits.  Both governments had been pandering to voters with massive spending programs and paying for them with budget deficits and therefore borrowing.  What would, she asked, save the U.S. from suffering the same fate as Argentina?  Esp. now that so many white-collar jobs could be exported to India?

My answer was "People like you! Smart immigrants."  The U.S. has the world's brightest academics, many of them who are themselves immigrants, in its universities.  This lures the brightest young people here to Stanford, Harvard, University of California, Caltech, et al.  Once they've spent 6 years in the U.S. getting a PhD they find that the U.S. offers the best opportunities for building a company or a group within a university and they stay, thus luring the next generation.  Susumu Tonegawa is a good example of the process.  Born and educated in Japan, one of the world's most sophisticated nations, he nonetheless chose to come to the U.S. for a postdoc.  He eventually ended up as a professor of biology at MIT and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1987.  Tonegawa remains at MIT and any young Japanese biologist who wants to learn from him must come to the U.S.  A country that has collected all of the world's smartest people should always be able to do something new, interesting, and profitable.

(A somewhat funnier way to look at the issue is Greek syllogism:

1. every American president must be native-born
2. Americans are smart and therefore always choose the best person to be president, from among the pool of qualified people
3. ergo, George W. Bush is the finest example of a native-born American

And that's why we need to bring in foreigners...)

A sadder way to look at the issue is one that I've brought up before in this blog.  We don't bother fixing inner-city neighborhoods and schools or trying to integrate the poorest Americans into our economy because it is cheaper to bring in immigrants who already have a good education and work ethic.  George W. Bush seems to be expressing this idea in a proposal discussed in today's New York Times:  "Bush Would Give Illegal Workers Broad New Rights":

"... Under Mr. Bush's proposal, which effectively amounts to an amnesty program for illegal immigrants with jobs in the United States, an undocumented worker could apply for temporary worker status here for an unspecified number of years, with all the employee benefits, like minimum wage and due process, accorded to those legally employed.

"Workers who are approved would be permitted to travel freely between the United States and their home countries, the officials said, and would also be permitted to apply for a green card granting permanent residency in the United States.

"Administration officials said that Mr. Bush would also propose increasing the number of green cards issued each year, which is now about 140,000, but they did not provide a specific number. ...

"Mr. Bush's proposals apply to all illegal immigrants in the United States, which officials estimate at 8 million to 14 million people. About 60 percent are thought to be Mexican. No one is certain how many undocumented workers there are among all illegal immigrants, but Mr. Fox has said that some 3.5 million of the workers are Mexican."

So circling back to the original question...  We can be sure that our currency won't collapse because all the world's smartest people live here and also many of the world's hardest-working.  So we can rest easy and take a vacation even.  But perhaps not in Europe where their currency has become 50% more expensive in the last 1.5 years for those of us who hold dollars...

Comments on Why the US Needs Immigrants

Comments on Why the US Needs Immigrants 01/08/2004 08:24 PM

Hmm... the immigration piece below seems to have triggered a bug that we've seen before in Manila, the software that Harvard runs for its blogs.  Comments go into the database somewhere but they aren't linked.  So I've cut and pasted a couple of my favorites here and anyone who wishes to comment on the piece below can do so here...

Matthew T: A more significant difference that will prevent the US from going into Argentine-style collapse in the near term is that US debt is designated in the US currency. As the dollar falls, US foreign debt doesn't grow, the trap that Argentina fell into. In the longer term, foreign trade will be conducted in a strong currency from a large economy: if the domestic plan is to inflate away the deficit, the Euro will usurp the dollar's central role.

John: According to Philip's logic, the great depression should have never happened. Was the US substantially different in 1929? It had tons of smart immigrants from all over the world, and yet the economy suffered a total collapse.

'English crucial' for immigrants

'English crucial' for immigrants 09/12/2004 01:15 AM
More than half the members of ethnic minorities in Britain believe immigrants should speak English, a survey suggests.

New device for tracking immigrants

New device for tracking immigrants 04/04/2005 01:17 PM
Chicago Tribune Apr 4 2005 5:19PM GMT

Thin immigrants get fat in U.S (Reuters)

Thin immigrants get fat in U.S (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
Reuters - Many immigrants to the United States soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their adopted country, researchers say.

U.S. immigrants gather aid for victims
(USATODAY.com)

U.S. immigrants gather aid for victims
(USATODAY.com) 12/28/2004 09:31 AM
USATODAY.com - From Buddhist temples in the Northeast to commercial strips in California, Southeast Asian immigrants made frantic calls home, gathered bandages and food and offered prayers for loved ones devastated by the giant waves that killed tens of thousands of people on two continents.

Computer Problems Frustrate Immigrants

Computer Problems Frustrate Immigrants 12/31/2003 12:27 AM
Washington Post Dec 30 2003 11:03PM ET

Immigrants in Rome Tell of Close Bond

Immigrants in Rome Tell of Close Bond 04/03/2005 09:50 PM
Rome's teeming Catholic immigrant community bid an intensely personal goodbye to a charismatic man who many said had transformed their lives.

Salary test mooted for immigrants

Salary test mooted for immigrants 09/06/2004 10:42 AM
A Tory commission's calls for the UK to refuse work permits to immigrants earning less than £25,000 will be "studied carefully" by party leaders.

UK's famous immigrants go online

UK's famous immigrants go online 08/27/2004 01:26 PM
The National Archives puts the official records of some of Britain's most famous immigrants on its website.

Speedboat immigrants plot foiled

Speedboat immigrants plot foiled 05/29/2004 05:07 AM
Police are questioning two men after 13 Chinese nationals are found on a beach near St Leonards.

"a bunch of measures like this in regard
to the status and circumstances of
immigrants?"

"a bunch of measures like this in regard
to the status and circumstances of
immigrants?" 01/07/2004 06:08 PM

Canadian government demands nude pix of
stripper-immigrants

Canadian government demands nude pix of
stripper-immigrants 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
Canadian Immigration officials are requiring that exotic dancers looking to enter Canada submit nude photos of themselves dancing, so ensure that they aren't nude-dancer-impersonators, sneaking into the country to do other kinds of work.

The potential dancers have to prove they can dance in the nude, immigration lawyer Mendel Green said Monday.

"They can't be partially nude," he said. "If they don't have pictures in the nude, they are not going to wiggle their bottoms in Canada."

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Homeland security chief, Tom Ridge,
endorses legalizing undocumented
immigrants

Homeland security chief, Tom Ridge,
endorses legalizing undocumented
immigrants 12/11/2003 06:12 AM
appears not to have gotten that memo

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UK institutes ridiculously difficult
English-proficiency test for
English-speaking immigrants

UK institutes ridiculously difficult
English-proficiency test for
English-speaking immigrants 08/22/2004 07:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: Immigrants to the UK from English-speaking countries such as Canada and Australia must pass an English proficiency test in order to gain UK citizenship. The test is apparently very stringent:

According to one report two Australians, including a knight who has lived in Britain for 44 years and a writer with a degree in English, have been rejected under the new rules.

Link (via Fark)

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:

An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.

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LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories 07/23/2004 09:58 AM
LifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews, present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life 08/15/2004 05:34 PM

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life 01/02/2004 04:48 AM
Woman Files $10M Suit Vs. Starbucks .. suing each other

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Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life 09/25/2004 09:11 AM

Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants 09/02/2004 05:50 PM
Just as we were talking about how to bette r handle things like IM in the office, we come across Future Now pointing to an (unfortunately BugMeNot-required) article about the "wisdom" of "digital natives." Basically, by understanding that the younger generation has grown up with technology all around them and understands both the technology and the behavior skills needed function can get by better than "digital immigrants" who will always feel a bit foreign. Amusingly, the article notes the difference between terminology: "Blog, Wiki, RTS, Spawn, POS, Astroturf" vs "cross-functional cooperation, team-based management, and 360-degree feedback." Also, they view things in a different manner. Rather than being worried about "information overload," digital natives learned to thrive on it, and, if anything seem to have more problems when its cut off -- which may be misinterpreted as addiction. As the article notes, this doesn't mean handing over businesses to a younger generation, but realizing the differences in the way older and younger generations look at these things, and realizing what that will mean for markets going forward.

Second Life Teaches Life Lessons

Second Life Teaches Life Lessons 04/06/2005 04:59 AM
Players use the online game for all kinds of non-game purposes, from counseling abused kids to teaching business students to be entrepreneurs. By Daniel Terdiman.

Why that mix CD might be illegal

Why that mix CD might be illegal 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
BBC Jan 15 2004 9:15PM GMT

more illegal art

more illegal art 02/15/2004 09:16 AM
So my story for the past months has been that this "war" on "piracy" will have unintended consequences -- most importantly, consequences for other creative remix forms of art. After a lecture in London, I was told by a leading executive at a major label that I was "completely wrong." That the "only" thing the record companies care about is controlling "piracy, which means copies." Apparently, Jay Z has inspired them to care more. See the latest entry at Illegal-Art.org.

Illegal or not?

Illegal or not? 07/01/2004 03:32 PM
Churchgoers get direction from Bush Campaign: The instruction sheet circulated by the Bush-Cheney campaign to religious volunteers lists 22 "duties" to be performed by specific dates. By July 31, for example, volunteers are to "send your Church Directory to your State Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters or give [it] to a BC04 Field Rep" and "Talk to your Pastor about holding a Citizenship Sunday and Voter Registration Drive." Isn't this blatantly illegal?

Is Using WiFi Illegal?

Is Using WiFi Illegal? 05/03/2004 01:45 PM
A few weeks ago we wrote a post wondering if it's illegal to get hacked. Tower Records was fined for having their customer records hacked, with the rationale that they didn't do enough to protect them. While it makes sense to fine a company that has revealed customer records, this becomes a slippery slope. What if you put in place all sorts of protective measures, and hackers still get through? Or, take the argument in a different direction - what if you think it's fine to leave your system open? With that in mind, Mark Rasch takes a look to see whether or not using WiFi may constitute a felony. It seems like a fine line, but if someone felt it was necessary, you could get in an awful lot of legal trouble for using WiFi. On the end user side of things, connecting to an open WiFi access point may run afoul of laws that make it illegal to "knowingly access a computer used in interstate or foreign communication 'without authorization.'" If the response is that the system was open, and thus the authorization was implied, then does that apply to situations where a customer database is left open as well? What if the security is so flimsy as to basically be non-existent. Where's the line? On the other side of things, Rasch points out that just by setting up a WiFi network, you could be in trouble as well. Unless you carefully make sure that no one outside of your home can access the network, you may run into problems with many state laws that make it illegal to "share" an internet connection, the same way it's illegal to share a cable or satellite TV connection.
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