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Black Caucus pays little attention to immigration issue
09/25/2011
Daily World
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 41st Annual Legislative Conference was last week in Washington, D.C. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas was the host. Unfortunately, the conference did not address mass immigration, a policy that has had many negative repercussions for the black community.
The Congressional Black Caucus and their partners in the Obama administration are both guilty of pursuing immigration policies that worsen the country's economic crisis. The Obama administration announced last month that it will adopt a case-by-case review process for the approximately 300,000 illegal immigrants currently facing possible expulsion in the United States. The administration will concentrate its efforts on targeting illegal immigrants with criminal convictions for deportations and will essentially pardon what it deems as 'low-priority cases.'
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Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Prior to joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).
