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Immigrants add billions to NY economy

Immigrants - both documented and undocumented - contributed $229 billion to the state’s economy a figure that represented nearly one quarter of New York’s economy in 2006, according to a report recently released by the Fiscal Policy Institute. “These figures should wipe away any impression that immigrants are holding the New York economy back,” said David Dyssegaard Kallick, senior fellow of the Fiscal Policy Institute and principal author of the report, Working for a Better Life: A Profile of Immigrants in the New York Economy. “In fact, immigrants are a central component of New York’s economic growth.” Immigrants make up 37 percent of the population in New York City and account for 46 percent of its http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2007/11/29/news/headline_stories/news04.txt do I need to say more?
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Some Inspiration

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting people interested in an issue, building a slightly bigger organization, carrying out the next move, experiencing frustration, and finally getting somewhere, that's how the world changes -  Noam Chomsky I stayed up last night reading  Imperial Ambitions  by Noam Chomsky and I came across that line, and even though he was talking about the anti-war movement , I think this appeals to the immigration movement, the Dream Act movement or any kind of movement that wants to succeed.
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Welcome!

The current status of undocumented immigrants is devastating. Some people see them as criminals, while others think they are stealing jobs in America and hurting the country. Invaders? It's really ironic when people call undocumented immigrants invaders, what happened to the war in Iraq? why is most of the world calling Americans the invaders? I ask myself that question a lot. But thanks to Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck and other xenophobes in the media, they have manage to demonize undocumented immigrants by calling them criminals, invaders, among other words promoting hate speech and racism against the Hispanic community and foreigners. But there is hope and people are starting to organize and fight back with the truth
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