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People Flows
America Is Stupidly Shutting Out Immigrants. Isn’t It?
4/18/2009 12:00:00 AMEver since 9/11, the general perception has been that America is over-building walls—both real and regulatory—to keep out immigrants. Horror stories about Indian engineers getting strip-searched as suspected terrorists provoked business leaders like Bill Gates to argue that the U.S. is scaring away talent, to its own disadvantage. Now the storyline has shifted, to focus on immigrants who are voluntarily leaving or avoiding America because the global financial crisis has tarnished its reputation as a land of growth and opportunity.
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FOREIGN POLICY
The Candidates on Immigration
1/3/2008 12:00:00 AMThe rise of globalization, combined with growing concerns over security and terrorism, has transformed immigration into an issue with significant foreign policy implications. In the 2006 midterm elections, immigration emerged as a significant issue in a number of campaigns, although it is not clear how decisive a role it played. The importance of a reformed immigration policy in a broader homeland security strategy has made it a major subject of debate in the 2008 presidential election. This debate escalated recently surrounding the controversial immigration reform legislation that would have granted temporary guest status to millions of illegal immigrants. That bill stalled in the Senate June 7, 2007 after a cloture motion was rejected, although nearly all of the presidential candidates currently serving as senators voted for that motion.
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A Great Wall?
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Coyote Inc.
Jaime Cordoba, smooth-faced and barely 18, sits crossed-legged in a corner of Agua Prieta's central plaza, sketching a map in the dirt. His audience is a family of five that has just gotten off the bus in this dusty Mexican border town with hopes of getting to Phoenix, Ariz. Cordoba makes his pitch: "You'll cross in one day. And you only pay if you make it." The price is $650 a person. From a nearby pay phone, the father calls relatives in Colorado, telling them to be ready to wire the money to Phoenix in a few days. Then Cordoba hands him a slip of paper with the address of a hotel a few blocks away. His instructions are simple: "Wait there until tomorrow."
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