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| recruit the best people from other countries to enhance our science, technology, education and economy. |
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| Debate: what are the 2 different issues on the US immigration policy? |
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Immigration Policy
Securing US borders
These different issues lead to confusion over what the real issues are |
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| What area the Results of the Immigration debate? |
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1. Those who support aliens illegally crossing into the us, to point out the benifits of legal immigration
2. Those who want to scale back legal immigration - to point out problems caused be illegal aliens |
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| Both sides talk past each other how |
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| True use deceptive statistics |
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| foreign born person who has not been naturalized to become US citizens under federal law and constitution. |
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| person who sneaks into the US and is violating that countries' law. |
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| person who enters US legally but subsequently violates the terms of their VISA, Green Card or permit. |
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an alein admitted to the US as a lawful resident bu following the laws and procedure to establish residence.
wishes to reside permanlty and respects our laws. |
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Appox people receive permanent residency annually
Blank illegal aleins come in every year |
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1 million
500000 illegals |
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| What are some Illegal Alien costs of them being here? |
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Lower consumer spending and cost by 1% b/c of cheaper labor
lost wages and GDP when illegal does it over native-boorn American. |
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| What is the money amount for lost wages on the economy and how much did California spend on teaching illegal children? |
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500 Bill per year lost wages
and 7 bill on educating children |
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| All the key elements the founding fathers created are everything the immigrants what? |
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The Hispanic Challenge
Mexican immigration differs from passt immigration
Contingency? |
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| US has the longest border of 2000 miles with a 3rd world country and has the biggest income gap btwn countries. |
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The Hispanic Challenge
Mexican immigration differs from past immigration
Scale |
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20% of all Mexicans live in US
Fertility rates of Beaners is 3 times as much of white folks |
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| 10 to 23 million illegal aliens in us from mexico that is how much more than any other country |
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| 25 times more the next is el salvador |
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The Hispanic Challenge
Mexican immigration differs from past immigration
Historical Presence |
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| all of Texas and most of the west belonged to Mexico before the US took it all back. |
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| Results according to the Hispanic Challenge |
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US at risk of being split up into 2 cultures Anglos and Spicks
less than 4 % of American born Spicks identify themselves as American |
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| What is aging infrastructure? |
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| Bridges collapsing, sewer systems dump water into river, dams breaks, roads crumble |
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| What was the US infrastructure report card grade? |
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Overall D
D- in water supply |
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| Politicians prefer to do what over what in the infrastructure argument. |
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| Build new structures, and not spend money to maintain old ones. Two problem - Money and prioriteis |
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| The Govt diverts money from where to help pay for infrastructures? |
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| What is the Proposal Paul Krugman said? |
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| instead of sending tvs over to china, we should use the stimulus money to repair our old infrastructure much like during the depression |
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| What does Obama's Stimulus package do with infrastructure? |
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27.5 highway and bridge repair
17.8 mass transit
6.0 waste water and drinking water. |
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| to gain info about planned terrorist attacks |
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| What are some successes of torture |
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there are none verifiable
Bush Admin claim that torture did prevent some attacks, but they did not have evidence to support their claim. |
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| Why is the CIA against torturing? |
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tortured prisoners will tell you anything you want to hear to stop the torture.
But they say they do what the President tells us. |
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| What are some failures of torture?? |
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| US violated international law and social norms. arrest warrant for 13 CIA agents for kidnapping Omar in Italy |
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Bush and torture
What is Bush's definition of Torture? |
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mistreatment that rises to the level of torture only if it produces severe pain equivalent to that associated with organ failure or death.organ
doesn't think water boarding is bad. |
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| What are some examples of prisoners being mistreated? |
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Prisoner placed in indefinite detention without food water, toilet and crowed cells
Torture included beatings, burns, chocked, hooded and water boarded. |
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| Who was a prisoners held in indefinite detention? |
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| Jose Padilla, held w/out charges on thinking about producing a dirty bomb. |
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| What is Extraordinary Rendition? |
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| kidnap people and send them to be tortured either at black sites run by US or other countries. |
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| innocent German, tried to cross border but had similar name to someone else. US held and tortured him for 5 months in Afghanistan. Black site |
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| Italians building case on him, shared info with US, we kidnapped Omar, sent him to Egypt. Italy has arranged 13 US CIA to be arrested. |
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| How many treaties has the US signed to prohibit torture? |
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| Foreign and Military Policy Goals: |
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1. Maintain national security
2. Promote Peace & international Stability
3. Provide economic assistance
4. Further US economic interests |
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The state of the international system
prior to 1648 |
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Peace of Westphalia ends 30 yrs war and gives birth to the modern state system.
ordered international anarchy
self help |
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| US is a hegemonic power, what is this? |
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| A country that sets the rules for the international system |
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| set of rules, norms, ideas, procedures used to manage the international system |
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| US has run regime since end of WWII, how has this helped us. |
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opened our markets, invited foreign students to study here
provided stable economies and curencies to prevent another war |
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| 1944 Bretton Woods conference setup international Monetary Fund, what is this? |
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| meant to stabilize exchange rates by making money convertible to gold and fixing the exchange rate. |
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| Bretton Woods also set up a conference for what? |
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| Reconstruction and development and to establish international trade but failed. |
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| Bretton Woods created what? |
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| The United Nations to provide forum for countries |
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| Nixon took dollar of the gold standard which led to what? |
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| the US having a floating exchange rate. |
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| US begins looking at cost of being hegemonic power, why? |
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| the costs are outweighing the benifits |
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| What are the 4 goals of the Foreign Policy in Iraq? |
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1.) Maintain National Security
2.) Promote peace and international stability.
3.) Provide Economic assistance
4.) Further US economic interst |
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| Iraq - US conflict what happened between 1979-1988? |
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| US supports Hussian's and helps him out with military assistance, then decides not too. |
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| Iraq - US conflict what happened between 1990-1991 |
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| Kuwait steals oil from Iraq, US goes against their pal Iraq and attacks them to make an example of them |
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| Iraq - US conflict what happened between 1991-98? (No Fly Zone) |
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| UN weapon inspectors sop on Hussien, Us tries to kill Hussein 3 different times, 98 Clinton bombs Iraq |
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Iraq, what now?
What do the people of Iraq want to do? |
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20% - Sunni want an autocratic leader
60% - Shia prefer theocracy
15% - Kurdish just want a stable nation |
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| What is the current situation on Iraq? |
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| Iraq is in a civil war, but the violence is easing. |
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| What has been the cost of the Iraq war been so far? |
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| more than 1 trillion dollars, expected before we are out that we will spend another 3 trillion. |
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| How many Americans and Iraqi's died in the war? |
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American - 4276 died, 330000 brain
Iraqi's - 654965 |
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| What are the 3 outcomes of the current situation in Iraq |
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1.) Keep military in Iraq: continued violence for years.
2.) pull out: increased violence initially then decrease in violence as Iraqi leaders deal with their problem.
3.)Partition country |
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| What is the most successful solution between the US and Iran? |
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start talks with Iran and Syria
Bush didn't want to because he didn't want to reward them |
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| What was the US' goal when they overthrew the prime minister of Iran? |
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to bring Iran from the 12th century to the 20th century
But the Iranians saw it as they got a dictator |
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| What happened in 2001 between the US and Iran? |
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| Iran because they hated the Taliban helped the US invade Afghanistan. |
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| What happened in 2002 between US and Iran. |
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| Bush calls Iran an axis of evil and Iran stops helping the US. |
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| Pres. Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005, what does he say about Israel. |
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| calls for Israel's destruction, we should not fear the destruction of America because he does not have th authority to do it. |
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| Who veto the US' try to sanction Iran and why? |
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| Russia and China, so US isn't a power. |
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| Are Bush and Obama's situation with Iran the same? |
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| Yes although Bush said he wasn't talking with Iran, he still was. Obama is also talking with them. they are acting the same, they have really the same policy. |
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US Policy toward Afghanistan
The Taliban how did it start? |
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USSR invaded Afghanistan DEC 1979
Pakistan's inter-service intelligence agency and CIA recruited to train religious students to fight USSR |
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| Afghanistan and Pakistan are |
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| the incubation centers for terrorists |
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The Taliban was built on what?
The Taliban had who's support?
What did the Taliban ban? |
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The Taliban was built on islamic(sunni) traditions and Pakistani nationalism.
The Taliban had the ISI support until they refused to give up Bin Laden.
They banned the education of women and if caught both would be executed |
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| The Taliban went into hiding in 2001 and then started what? |
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| Attacking guerrilla style on Afghanistan |
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| Afghanistan grows 90% of the worlds? |
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| Opium and most of the sales fund the Taliban. |
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| The US pressures Pakistan to do what? |
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give an autonomy to border regions, but that just made Taliban activity increase,
as a result Obama shifting military to Afghanistan. |
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American Policy - Pakistan
What do most economist say about what is going to happen to Pakistan in the future? |
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| fail within the year, this is bad because they have nuclear weapons |
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1998-Pakistan tests nuclear weapon.
1999-General Musharraf takes a military dictatorship in military coup.
2004-AD Khan confesses to selling nuclear tech to Iran, Libya, Korea,
Musharraf pardons Khan |
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2007-Musharraf removes justice sparking, Former Prime minister Bhutto returns from exile and is assassinated.
2008-Musharraf resigns, Zardari(Mr. 10%) becomes president, Pakistani terrorist kill 173 in mumbia |
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spike in terrorist bombings
weakened democracy
Growing anger toward US
Border skirmishes w/ India over Jammer and Kashmir
economy failing
Pakistan could fall this year |
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