‘Immigration Writ Large Is Yielding Enormous Economic Benefits to the United States’

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that “immigration writ large is yielding enormous economic benefits to the United States.” Ocasio-Cortez said, “It is actually completely nonsensical that we do not talk about the enormous blessing, economic blessing that immigrants and immigration represent to the United States of America. A lot …

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Why Is Haley Postponing Her Reckoning With Reality?

The late Kenny Rogers wasn’t singing about our presidential nominating process, but he could’ve been: "You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em; know when to walk away, know when to run." Source link

Unexploded Ordnance in Laos Continues to Maim and Kill People

Andrea Arroyo The USA dropped over 266 million bombs in Laos from 1964 to 1973. Over 80 million failed to explode and continue to kill and maim people to this day. Photos taken at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise Center, Vientiane, Laos. The post Unexploded Ordnance in Laos Continues to Maim and Kill …

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Advice For Farewell Notes : NPR

NEAL CONAN, HOST: Looking ahead to our last day, many of our friends and colleagues have been faced with a dilemma. Well, how do you say goodbye? For many of us, finding the right words can be difficult. And when inspiration fails and panic sets in, well, we often turn to the long racks …

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Why America can’t seem to fix its broken immigration system : NPR

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Theresa Cardinal Brown, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s senior adviser for immigration and border policy, about why America has struggled to fix its immigration problem. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The situation at the U.S. border won’t get fixed any time soon. This afternoon, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border package that …

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