Weekly Immigration Wire: Legalize the undocumented, help fix the economy
By The Media Consortium | April 16, 2009
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger

The article talks about how Immigrants in the US are usually deported from the US when accuse of a crime without a fair trial to prove their innocence.

"As the country moves forward on comprehensive immigration reform," they write, "We must uphold American values by ensuring that all people, no matter where they come from, are afforded fundamental rights, including the right to a fair day in court before being deprived of liberty and the right to be free from inhumane conditions of confinement. As a nation, we cannot stand for anything less."
The article talks about how Immigrants in the US are usually deported from the US when accuse of a crime without a fair trial to prove their innocence.



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The chapter has a section that talks about immigration policies and how they effect the economy. Immigration policies include objectivesof recruiting qualified worker with needed skills by the employers. The policies usually encourages workers to settle in areas tha are underpopulated and short of needed human resources. This is aimed at reducing the geographic dimesion of structural unemployment.


The Economy and Immigration.
Seeing as to not having an arrest record is one of the qualifications of becoming an immigrant in the US, the government should not be deporting people for being accused of crimes without fair court sessions. Studys have shown that when a company losses one employee, they have to spend more than $50,000 for a replcement of that employee. They have to spend money on advertisment, training and at the same time lossing money on the work that the new employee will be doing since the employee has not yet adapted to the new enviroment their productivity is lower than that of an old employee. The US government should give fair hearing to immigrants to see to not lossing qualified workers in the work force.