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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (564851)5/6/2010 10:51:59 AM
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The questions and confusions surrounding international immigration are not unique to SouthWestern USA. The process of Globalization has been active for some time now. Immigration is but one facet of that phenomenon. We've learned a lot but there are still major problems that have not been resolved. The facts we know are that most reasons for immigration is gender specific. Females are immigrating to be domestic servants or for match made international marriages (shortage = 100million women). Males are more likely to immigrate for job and career opportunities. Many people immigrate with the idea that it is a temporary measure and with no intention of changing their nationality. Often times children and families are left behind and as plans go, plans to reunite at some later date are frequently not successful.

Under the best of conditions this is all done with full international sanction and with human rights protections. However, the opening for criminal opportunists is a gaping and complicated issue. Immigrants are vulnerable. Trafficking and sex trade has mushroomed to be a 33 billion dollar per year industry and is growing annually. The poverty of those left behind is getting worse. Even when the immigrant believes things are all above board, they may find out once they are beyond the protection of the village back home, they've been sold into slavery. This is often true whether or not the individual had the intention to immigrate legally.

However, illegal immigration is the bread and butter of human traffickers. Governments should encourage and promote the employment and social protection of immigrant workers under civil code, which of course means by the law. Legal immigration laws and practices are the only sensible route to addressing that issue on the global scale now at issue, involving hundreds of millions.
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