Without immigrants, construction, hotels and restaurants in Boston might grind to a halt, according to a study by the BPDA posted last week.
Using data from 2014, the agency found that roughly 40% of Boston residents who work in construction - and 41% of all Boston residents who work in hotels and restaurants were born somewhere other than the US. In fact, 30% of all Bostonians with a job are foreign born, the study says, adding that Dominicans and Haitians are the two largest groups of foreign-born workers, at about 10% each, followed by people from China and El Salvador.
The number of jobs held by native-born residents has increased since 1980, just nowhere near the explosive growth seen by foreign-born residents.
The BPDA adds:
Boston's immigrant population has a significant economic impact on the local economy through their spending.
They spend from their after-tax earnings, more than $3.6 billion annually. These annual expenditures generate more
than $1.2 billion in State and Federal tax revenues and contribute almost $3.6 billion to the regional product.
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strawman much?
By anon
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 5:49pm
I don't see others in the thread blaming immigrants for random problems. But why should illegal immigration be tolerated? Is following the process too much to ask?
At the same time, comparing today to 100 years ago doesn't make sense. Immigrants aren't headed towards the expanding American frontier like in the past. Famine is not a global phenomenon like it was 100 years ago, either.
simple answer
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:45pm
Yes.
US "process" is a byzantine patchwork of arbitrarily complicated bullshit, frankly. My brother migrated to Canada and got his citizenship within 5 years. He was allowed to work as soon as he set foot in the country. Very straightforward process, actually.
More BS
By Roman
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 10:04pm
The process is meant to be "hard." It's supposed to keep out people who don't have their shit together enough to fill out a fucking form.
What form did you fill out?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 10:29pm
What form did you fill out?
What line did you stand in?
By lbb
Tue, 07/31/2018 - 8:02am
What line did you stand in, Roman?
Two possibilities
By Roman
Tue, 07/31/2018 - 7:18pm
Possibility one:
My distinct memories of taking the overnight train to Moscow with my parents as a kid to get interviewed at the US embassy are true.
Possibility two (and this one leaves much more room for creativity):
I'm lying. You can get creating about this one:
Could be I'm lying about it being me. Sure it happened to someone around that time, but me, at that time I was a full grown adult busy washing his bedsheets for the klan meeting I was supposed to be presiding over in middle of nowhere Montana.
Could be I'm lying about it ever happening to anyone. For you see, there is no such thing as legal immigration. Never was such a thing, as a matter of fact. From the founding of the Republic until this very day, all immigration has been a game of Frogger at the border.
There's a chance that I'm not lying but hallucinating. Instead of being a thirty-something male immigrant Jew from the former Soviet Union, I could be lots of other things:
Behind door number one is a black transgendered woman escaped mental patient.
Behind door number two is the klansman fellow a few paragraphs back. The two might be one and the same...can never tell exactly who's under that sheet. Could be two or three kids in a human pyramid under that sheet...so that's up to three more people who could be spinning this here yarn.
And of course, behind door number three is Comrade Ivanov, toiling away at some troll farm in Siberia and pining away for the good old days of Soviet Union. That'd be extra-special on two counts, you see, for in Siberia there are no doors left. All wooden objects having been burned for fuel in the 1990s. Even the doors made of pine. Maybe it's an imaginary door? You'd have to rotate yourself 90 degrees to see it.
two points
By anon
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:54pm
One: I never said anyone "in the thread", and it's quite clear I was referring to the grand American tradition of throwing immigrants under the metaphorical bus particularly in times of economic hardship so that elites may gain political support by way of pitting the working classes against each other for no discernible reason.
This is indeed the point of making the historical comparison - that the same language is being used now that was being used a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago. By now the cynical tactic should be so transparent as to be laughable, but still people continue to fall for it.
Two: Who said anything anywhere about famine? People migrate for lots of reasons. Famine still exists, btw, alongside alot of other factors that cause outward migration. Factors that, in large part, the United States and its foreign policy have been responsible for.
The American Immigration Council might be nonpartisan
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 3:35pm
But they definitely have a bias.
Argue the numbers
By anon
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 3:54pm
The numbers were put out there. They did not derive from the organization.
Sure I will
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:24pm
When I find the source of their numbers.
Biased organizations create biased reports based on real numbers.
true.
By anon
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 4:06pm
that insidious "immigrants are people" bias.
the bastards.
If you don’t see their bias...
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:25pm
You are biased. They advocate in courts on behalf of “unauthorized” immigrants. They have a bias in the immigration debate, just like that other group with a silimarly innocent sounding name but rails against illegal immigration has a bias.
Do you have facts and data?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:26pm
Present them, then.
Otherwise, BUUUUTTTT THEEYYYYYYYRRREEE BIIIIIIAAAAAASSSSSEDDDDD sounds plain old dumb.
That isn't an argument, that's whining.
If you want a discussion, present alternative information, please!
Huh?
By Waquiot
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:43pm
You don't believe my claim that the American Immigration Council doesn't have a bias? And you can't be bothered to research them yourself? Well, you might trust any old study that comes out without thinking about the source, but sometimes, when I see the phrase "non-partisan," I wonder why they are claiming that. Since you just accept things without wondering the source, there's not much I can to to change your mind. But if you're curious, check out their website. And if you're too lazy to do that, here's a snip-it from the page.
Meanwhile, the Federation for American Immigration Reform also casts themselves as a non-partisan public interest organization, but I am certain that all will agree that they are very biased in their work.
All I want is honesty. I won't doubt anything said, except to cast aspersions on the group making the statements. Were it from Pew, who truly try to produce research without bias, I would say nothing, but these guys have a bias.
Immigrants important, illegals not so much
By O-FISH-L
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 8:42pm
Of course immigrants are important, illegals are not. I will narrow it to one issue, vetting. Although imperfect, the US System of NCIC (National Crime Information Center) and the MA BOP (Board of Probation) system keep a decent record of people here legally, often supported by photographs and fingerprints. Do you think Guatemala or El Salvador is using the same system or sharing? Please.
A perfect example is the Mariel boatlift when Castro released all of his maximum security Cuban prisoners and mental hospitals and floated them to Florida. All kinds of fake names and unimaginable crime in Florida and throughout the East Coast.
The only immigration "reform" needed is to speed up the process and reverse Ted Kennedy's disastrous immigration act of 1965 that dropped the requirement for a US sponsor (moral and financial) and monthly check in with the local police. As for those who cut the line, get them out of here.
Friends..
By anon
Tue, 07/31/2018 - 10:16am
Don't respond to the Fish Troll. It's what he wants.
For all of us.
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