Only Five Stories to Tell, and Migration Is One of Them. Help us out...
- added October 15, 2007
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- MitchKoss
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So even though we produce lots of news stories, in a way, many of them are installments of the same on-going five stories. Right now, we're designating those on-going stories as economy, US power, new power, consumption, and migration. In the next generation of current.com, you'll be able to click on one of these categories and see all the stories we?ve done so far arrayed in arc, so that you can see where the investigation is at present, and what you can do to help out, if you're so inclined.
In the meanwhile, we have to tell you that we are in the midst of what is likely the largest mass migration in history. As the idea that you don't have to accept the conditions that you were born into reaches across the globe, people are starting to move from poorer to less poor areas, often bringing great changes to the places they go.
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In the US, immigration has become a heated issue, and certainly from Jael de Pardo in Mexico's Sinaloa state checking on what happens to the money that undocumented workers in the US send home, to Max and Jason buying a fake Social Security card in Los Angeles, to Elizabeth Chambers and Lauren Cerre in Sasabe, Mexico, talking with migrants trying to sneak into the US, to Tracey Chang watching an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep of criminally involved illegal immigrants, to Janet Choi at a Catholic refuge in Tijuana, Mexico full of guys who'd been deported, Vanguard covers that aspect of migration. But as Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster show, not only is Mexico itself a target of migrants from Central America, Spain is a target of migrants from North Africa, and the super-cities of the world, such as Lagos, Nigeria, are a magnet for internal migrants from the country side, the same internal rural to urban migration that Laura Ling tracked in China.
And so on. Soon, we'll have a visual display of all the migration stories laid out in an arc, so that you can jump in and continue the investion.
In the meanwhile, here's a question: Has the crackdown on illegal crossings along the US-Mexican border already had an impact on the millions of jobs down by undocumented workers. Earlier this year, some governors of western states, where agriculture is heavily dependent of migrant workers, were warning of "crops rotting in the field." Is this the case? And what about the hotel and restaurant industry, also a big employer of undocumented labor. What's going on in Las Vegas?
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Finally, someone young and interested in international affairs that is affecting the new world.
Another important example of bad migration usage:Constructions companies are an illegal immigrant recruitment institution. Construction companies hire laborers that do jobs construction workers won?t do. Illegal people work and don?t speak English, perfect. Paying tons of money under the table or to fake S.S.# that pay taxes but never claim or do their taxes at the end of the year.
Paying taxes and not claiming them is good b?ness for the IRS. Business is life. Migration from all other countries is out of control. Many people that don?t speak English live all over and I feel blessed to speak Spanish. It has gone out of control and the only thing that can be done would be to teach the young. Evolution is real and always moving forward. But it?s all good until we kill ourselves.
The only country that has all the other sub-countries. Only in America but everything else is made in China.
