Today we covered some current issues involving the shooting in DC and that he believed that , and a teacher raped a 14 year old girl in Montana (she later committed suicide) and was sentenced to only a month in prison. After continued to go over president Obama's immigration plan the first group re-caped on doubling the guards at the boarder, having drones monitoring, the fence, and having a fence between Canada and the US, the president wants to make it harder to smuggle things into the country, he also wants to create tougher penalties for those who smuggle things in. The second group presented on trying to make it easier to get in and out of America, the plan also wants to start reuniting families by putting those who have family come to the "front of the line", speed up the green card process and visa's, the plan also is trying to make it fast and easy for the smartest people from other countries to get in, they want to make it easy for tourist to come into the country, wants to increase medical screening to prevent disease enter the country, make it easier for active military to become citizens. The next group covered immigrates making up about 7.4 million people, how they start 28% of business's as of 2011, immigrant owned companies create jobs for everybody, immigrants boost demands for consumer goods, how they boost the economy by spending money, 50% of the GED's are immigrants, 1/8 of all Americans are recent immigrants, Mexico and Canada are 2 of our biggest trading partners (Canada #1, Mexico #3). The last group covered the Republican side of immigration. The Republicans believe in strengthening the boarder, harsher punishment on illegals, a concrete boarder, fire and deport illegals working here already, biometric data which identifies who you are by having a record of every person in the US, putting security cameras on the fence, they want the illegals to come out of the shadows and participate in the economy. No major changes in immigration have changed sense the 80's.
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