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- 131: North American Free Trade Agreement: NAFTA
- ... do not want Foreign Direct Investment invading it. This has been addressed by President Clinton with special concessions that are not part of the NAFTA treaty. The major sovereignty issue for the United States is immigration of Mexican nationals into the United States. This would cause the eventual lowering of wages in the border states and higher social system costs. There is no empirical data to support this claim and I ... major reason that illegal aliens enter this country is for economic reasons. With the establishment of new manufacturing facilities and an increase in the standard of living the result should be lowered amounts of illegal immigration (Write AOL). The environmental concern of pollution overflowing into the United States has been addressed by a supplementary agreement that has been amended to the NAFTA treaty (Levine 6). This agreement limits the amount of ...
- 132: The Employment Equity Act: A Short Paper Evaluating The Success of the Act.
- ... regulated employers with 100 or more employees to implement equity programs and provide for minimal commitments on the part of employers to file bare census information on their work force with the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission and to develop their own defined employment equity program to remedy systemic discrimination." On September 1, during the same year, the federal government implemented the Federal Contractors Employment Equity Program, requiring that all contractors ... mandatory reporting of progress in the companies affected by the Act (all federally regulated companies with more than 100 employees). From the information provided by these companies, which approximates 350, the Minister of Employment and Immigration Canada is required to compile an annual report, to analyse and monitor the progress of the Act and to ensure compliance. Although annual reports exist from 1987 to 1992, while researching this paper, only the ...
- 133: Political Parties During the Civil War
- ... extending slavery into the Western territories. In 1856 they nominated John Charles Frιmont for the presidency. He won about a third of the popular vote, but alienated many potential supporters by his failure to oppose immigration. The Republicans joined the Democrats as one of the nation's two major parties in the late 1850s. They gained support as concern grew in the North over Southern influence in Washington, D.C., and they reassured the antiforeign Know-Nothings that they cared about the social impact of immigration. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from the Union, and the country was plunged into the Civil War (1861-1865). The Civil War and ...
- 134: Proposition 187: Don't Mess With Texas
- ... to be on this side of the Rio Grande when they fall ill? After all, "bacteria and viruses distribute themselves without regard for national borders" (Gaffney 228), and "diseases like tuberculosis do not check for immigration status" (Health 248). Some citizens might believe that diseases like tuberculosis were a thing of the past, but a Californian study found that seventy percent of all immigrants arrive carrying the germs that cause tuberculosis ... Why should we turn our backs on aliens residing in this country just because a few citizens, most with little real knowledge of the true situation, think that this is the way to end illegal immigration. Illegal aliens are hired by many, many people to mow the lawn, watch the kids, clean the house, or to cook for the family. A lot of times, you neighbors do not claim these workers ...
- 135: Cultural Diversity in Local Politics
- ... crowded, grittier and crime-ridden as groups contended over spaces that had previously been separate. Approximately 400,000 more people lived in Los Angeles than a decade before. The engine driving the population increase was immigration by Latinos and Asians. Suddenly the immigration issue was becoming explosive. All this took place in the midst of a blistering recession that hit LA and all of California extremely hard. A major proportion of all jobs lost nationally were lost in ...
- 136: Latin America
- ... a mediator of differences among all American republics as well as its immediate neighbors. In like manner has each of the countries been influenced in its relations with the others by its geographical position. Modern Immigration The modern immigration movement began in the middle of the 19th century. It was the largest in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. It involved mostly Europeans, although 250,000 Japanese moved to Brazil and 40,000 moved to ...
- 137: Israel - The Presidential Brief
- ... control of the Middle East through violence and the British did little to stop the Arabs. In 1939 the British issued a document called the "White Paper." It announced the plan to cut off Jewish immigration to Palestine completely in five years and create an Arab state in the area. The Yishuv fought the White Paper with a passion. If the White Paper took effect, there would be no chance of ... Israel was in possession of 21 percent more land than had originally been assigned by the UN's Partition plan. When Israel was formally created, the country was opened to all Jews worldwide for Jewish immigration or aliyah. Jews from around the world sent financial support or left their own homes to fight for the establishment of this new country. . In the years 1947-1982 Israel fought five major wars: The ...
- 138: The Future of The City of Miami
- ... cities revolve around racism, and how can we look toward the future if we have no idea of where we've come? In order to understand our future, we must first be aware of the immigration that is taking place now, Wilson said. Miami has the highest level of immigrants and is the best place to study immigration in the world. Everyone knows that there is a strong barrier of racism throughout the U.S., but how can we put this behind us in order to move toward the future? Wilson added. Jim ...
- 139: Israel
- ... year. There is a division among its religious and non-religious people, and a division among its citizens of European vs. North African origin. Israel has, in the past, had to deal with not enough immigration and most recently too much immigration. When Israel was first established there was much work to be done and too few people to do it. Now there is rising unemployment in Israel, partly because of the mass of new immigrants from ...
- 140: The North American Free Trade Agreement
- ... which leads Mexicans to stray across the border into this country, that or the new value menu at Taco Bell. By encouraging the Mexican economy to grow, the United States can focus less on harsh immigration policies such as California's Proposition 187 and more on correcting the problem currently at hand. Once this economy in Mexico begins to establish itself and experience any growth, labor laws and regulations will become ... some instances exceed them, but without the funds or manpower to back them up, they are as worthless as the paper that they are written on. Keep in mind though, that sharp decreases in illegal immigration are not expected immediately, rather within the next two decades will the influx of these people be reduced significantly. Since NAFTA passed in late 1993 and took effect, it has lived up to it's ...
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